noodling
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]noodling (countable and uncountable, plural noodlings)
- (uncountable) The practice and sport of fishing for catfish using the bare hands.
- (countable) Musical improvisation.
- 1991, Gunther Schuller, The swing era: the development of jazz, 1930-1945:
- Unlike Basie's increasingly repetitious piano noodlings, Young's melodic gestures had a way of staying fresh and inventive.
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[edit]Verb
[edit]noodling
- present participle and gerund of noodle