The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NODDY
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More clues leading to the result NODDY
- Simpleton tending to drift into sleep?
- Children’s character strange to find in New York
- Indicate approval, having cleaned out dirty seabird
- “Taxi Driver” — wooden-headed eccentric in New York
- Taxi driver not even found in city of yellow taxis?
- Underage driver? He rings a bell!
- Seabird going wee-wee in Boulogne?
- Noodle for game bird
- Oceanic bird’s occasional visit to New York
- Fool likely to fall asleep, might you think?
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What does NODDY mean?
NODDY noun- A stupid or silly person.
- Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous and Procelsterna, found in tropical seas.
- A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a single horse.
- An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
- An old card game.
- A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.