Nŏd'dle, n.
n. [Probably from nod, because it is the nodding part of the body.]
Sense 1. The head; — used jocosely or contemptuously.
Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L’Estrange.
Sense 2. The back part of the head or neck. [Obs.]
Of that whiche ordeineth dooe procede — Imaginacion in the forhed, Reason in the braine, Remembraunce in the nodel. Sir T. Elyot, 1541.
For occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken. Bacon.
After that fasten cupping-glasses to the noddle of the neck. Barrough, 1624.