имя существительное 1) дурак, простак Синоним(ы): simpleton, fool 2) [зоология] глупыш, глупая крачка
noun (plural noddies) Etymology: probably short for obsolete noddypoll, alteration of hoddypoll fumbling inept person 1. a stupid person 2. any of several stout-bodied terns (especially genus Anous) of warm seas
/nod'ee/ [UK: from the children's books] 1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs are often written by people learning a new language or system. The archetypal noddy program is hello, world. Noddy code may be used to demonstrate a feature or bug of a compiler. May be used of real hardware or software to imply that it isn't worth using. "This editor's a bit noddy." 2. A program that is more or less instant to produce. In this use, the term does not necessarily connote uselessness, but describes a hack sufficiently trivial that it can be written and debugged while carrying on (and during the space of) a normal conversation. "I'll just throw together a noddy awk script to dump all the first fields." In North America this might be called a mickey mouse program. See toy program. 3. A simple (hence the name) language to handle text and interaction on the Memotech home computer. Has died with the machine.