noddy vs piccolo

noddy

noun
  • A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview. 

  • Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous and Procelsterna, found in tropical seas. 

  • 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. 

  • A stupid or silly person. 

piccolo

noun
  • A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant. 

  • A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle. 

  • A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox. 

  • A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher. 

  • An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute. 

adj
  • Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments. 

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