<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(plural: noddies) any of several dark-bodied terns of the genera <em>Anous</em> and <em>Micranous</em> found about the coasts and islands in warm seas of both the New and Old Worlds, often so tame as to seem stupid.</li><li>A fool or simpleton; noodle.</li></ul>