noodle（ヌードル）
意味
- ヌードル(平打ちうどんの類;スープなどに入れる)
- ばか者
- 《米俗》頭
例文
I had a bowl of noodles at a street nearby.
すぐそこでそばを立ち食いしてきた。
I had instant noodles as a midnight snack.
夜食にインスタントラーメンを食べた。
You're right. The noodle broth here is a bit expensive.
その通りさ。ここの麺の出汁はちょっと値が張るんだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Borrowed from Dutch noedel (“noodle”), or from its etymon German Nudel (“piece of pasta, noodle”); further etymology uncertain, probably a variant of Knödel (“dumpling”), from Middle High German knödel (“dumpling; small knot”), and then either: * from knode, knote (“knot”) (from Old High German knodo, knoto (“knot”), perhaps ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *knappō (“knob; boy”)) + -el (diminutive suffix); or * from Ladin menùdli (“small dough dumpling in soup”), probably from Latin minutulus (“very small, tiny”) (in the sense of food chopped into small pieces), a diminutive of minūtus (“diminished; having been diminished”), the perfect passive participle of minuō (“to make smaller,…