See noodly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1957, Moritz Jagendorf, Noodlehead Stories from Around the World, Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 281:",
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"ref": "1981, Good Housekeeping, page 345:",
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"ref": "2004, The New Yorker, page 63:",
"text": "My preferences tend toward beef noodle, chicken noodle—the noodlier soups.",
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"ref": "2015, Tim Anderson, Nanban: Japanese Soul Food, Square Peg, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2014, Leah Marie Brown, Faking It (The It Girl Series), Lyrical Press, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2017, Ann Louise Gittleman, The Complete New Fat Flush Companion Series, McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 176:",
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"ref": "1998 January 16, John Corbett, “Cradle of Electronica”, in Chicago Reader:",
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"ref": "2002 May 17, Peter Margasak, “Cornershop”, in Chicago Reader:",
"text": "Both of those albums contained lots of what's charitably called filler--in the form of noodly hip-hop-inspired loops that never went anywhere--and it took the band five years to release the new Handcream for a Generation (Wiija/Beggars Banquet).",
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"ref": "2005, Paul Ford, Gary Benchley, Rock Star, Plume, →ISBN, page 290:",
"text": "For a moment I thought he might ask me if I would sing, and I was excited, and afraid of that possibility. But he said, “A little more noodly, you know?[…]”",
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"ref": "2007, Clinton Heylin, Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, Canongate, →ISBN, page 231:",
"text": "Mark P’s distaste was perhaps understandable on at least one level: this was two different bands, the original band that had demoed ‘Friction’, ‘Prove It’, ‘Venus De Milo’ and ‘Marquee Moon’ two years earlier with Island’s Richard Williams; and the altogether noodlier outfit, whose ‘Torn Curtain’, ‘Guiding Light’ and ‘Elevation’ seemed set in deliberate opposition to their original, earthier, aesthetic.",
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"ref": "2008, Matt Pagett, The Best Dance Moves in the World…Ever!: 100 New and Classic Moves and How to Bust Them, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 80:",
"text": "If the music becomes more “noodly,” why not try and trace the notes out in front of you with your fingers?",
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"ref": "2009, T. Virgil Parker, Jessica Hopsicker, Carri Anne Yager, Sausage Factory: The College Crier’s Infamous Interviews of the Freaks and the Famous, Inkwater Press, →ISBN, page 233:",
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"ref": "1981, Good Housekeeping, page 345:",
"text": "NOODLIER THAN THE NORMAL NOODLE SOUP",
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"ref": "2004, The New Yorker, page 63:",
"text": "My preferences tend toward beef noodle, chicken noodle—the noodlier soups.",
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"ref": "2015, Tim Anderson, Nanban: Japanese Soul Food, Square Peg, →ISBN:",
"text": "I got the grant and set off on a four-week tour of some of Japan’s noodliest destinations.",
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"ref": "2014, Leah Marie Brown, Faking It (The It Girl Series), Lyrical Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "They’re spicier and more noodly.",
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},
{
"ref": "2017, Ann Louise Gittleman, The Complete New Fat Flush Companion Series, McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 176:",
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"text": "He felt the pangs intensifying, as if the noodly, repetitive sounds were some lost language he'd known but forgotten, a dialect discarded or repressed.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2002 May 17, Peter Margasak, “Cornershop”, in Chicago Reader:",
"text": "Both of those albums contained lots of what's charitably called filler--in the form of noodly hip-hop-inspired loops that never went anywhere--and it took the band five years to release the new Handcream for a Generation (Wiija/Beggars Banquet).",
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},
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"ref": "2005, Paul Ford, Gary Benchley, Rock Star, Plume, →ISBN, page 290:",
"text": "For a moment I thought he might ask me if I would sing, and I was excited, and afraid of that possibility. But he said, “A little more noodly, you know?[…]”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Clinton Heylin, Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, Canongate, →ISBN, page 231:",
"text": "Mark P’s distaste was perhaps understandable on at least one level: this was two different bands, the original band that had demoed ‘Friction’, ‘Prove It’, ‘Venus De Milo’ and ‘Marquee Moon’ two years earlier with Island’s Richard Williams; and the altogether noodlier outfit, whose ‘Torn Curtain’, ‘Guiding Light’ and ‘Elevation’ seemed set in deliberate opposition to their original, earthier, aesthetic.",
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},
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"ref": "2008, Matt Pagett, The Best Dance Moves in the World…Ever!: 100 New and Classic Moves and How to Bust Them, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 80:",
"text": "If the music becomes more “noodly,” why not try and trace the notes out in front of you with your fingers?",
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},
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"ref": "2009, T. Virgil Parker, Jessica Hopsicker, Carri Anne Yager, Sausage Factory: The College Crier’s Infamous Interviews of the Freaks and the Famous, Inkwater Press, →ISBN, page 233:",
"text": "That’s one of our goals in improvisation, to come up with something that seems previously composed as opposed to a loose improvisation that’s more noodly.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Mark Radcliffe, Crossroads: In Search of the Moments That Changed Music, Canongate Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "They have the preeniest frontman, with his piano safely off towards the wings of the stage, the prettiest drummer, the noodliest guitarist and the quietest bass player.",
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