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A trifler; a simple fellow.

The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.]

A stupid or insignaficant fellow; a fool; a simpleton. [R.] Hudibras.

An imaginary creature, of undefined character. [Slang]

We might have withheld our political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles. Moore.

rvæ of which bore in timber; as, the silky timber beetle (Lymexylon sericeum). -- Timber doodle (Zoöl.), the American woodcock. [Local, U.S.] -- Timber grouse (Zoöl.), any species of grouse that inhabits woods, as the ruffed grouse and spruce partridge; -- distinguished from prairie grouse. -- Timber hitch (Naut.), a…