noodle
A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
Example
“She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.”
Other meanings
An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
A long and slender dragon, usually an eastern dragon.
A kind of
- pasta
Kinds of noodle
- egg noodle
Word history
From German "Nudel" (piece of pasta, noodle).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “noodle” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.