Noun: noll
Sample Sentences
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Wolde to God it wolde please you some daye / A balade boke before me for to laye, / And lerne me to synge Re my fa sol! / And whan I fayle bobbe me on the noll. [1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:]
Nouns inflected like noll
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English nol, from Old English hnol. Cognate with Dutch nol (“top of a sand-dune”). See: Middle English Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "noll"
Dutch Nouns
nol, English Nouns
jobbernowl.