noddle vs pull up

noddle

verb
  • To nod repeatedly. 

noun
  • The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. 

  • The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect. 

pull up

verb
  • To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point. 

  • To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins). 

  • To raise the nose of an aircraft. 

  • To cause (a horse) to stop when riding. 

  • To fetch for display on a screen. 

  • To admonish or criticize someone for their actions. 

  • To cause (a person) to stop. 

  • To lift upwards or vertically. 

  • To pull forward. 

  • To improve; to get better; to lift one's game. 

  • To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to. 

How often have the words noddle and pull up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )