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Catchword for “noodle”
Catchword: noodle
Part of Speechv.
The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.
Quotation: If blasting away at fish strikes some as crude, it’s nothing next to noodling. Variously known as hand grabbing, hogging, grabbling, stumping and dogging (depending on what part of the country you’re in), noodling, as they call it in Texas and Oklahoma, does away with all artifice—rod, reel, line and hook—and uses only the bare hand instead. For bait, there is nothing but the noodler’s own fingers, which are wagged enticingly in front of promising catfish holes.
Article or Document Title:
“Some fishermen think outside the tackle box” (URL)
Author:
Patrick Joseph
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Kansas City Star
Publishing Location:
Mo.-Kan.
Date of Publication:
Aug. 1, 2004
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