noodledom

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

noodle +‎ -dom

Noun[edit]

noodledom (usually uncountable, plural noodledoms)

  1. (colloquial, dated) foolishness
    • August 11, 1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words
      Noodledom was a deadly poison. An over-dose of it would destroy a whole nation, and he had known a recent case where it had caused the death of many thousand men.