{"id":18702,"date":"2020-01-11T15:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T15:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18702"},"modified":"2020-01-11T15:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T15:52:49","slug":"nurdling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18702","title":{"rendered":"Nurdling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you nurdle? Have you ever nurdled?<\/p>\n<p>The verb <strong>to nurddle<\/strong> means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To score runs by gently nudging the ball into vacant areas of the field (<em>in cricket<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>To gently waffle or muse on a subject which one clearly knows little about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The noun <strong>nurddle<\/strong> means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A type of shot in cricket<\/li>\n<li>A cylindrical shaped pre-production plastic pellet used in manufacturing and packaging.<\/li>\n<li>A blob of toothpaste shaped like a wave, often depicted on toothpaste packaging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The origins of this word are uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/nurdle\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/nurdle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Are there equvialents of this word in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you nurdle? Have you ever nurdled? The verb to nurddle means: To score runs by gently nudging the ball into vacant areas of the field (in cricket). To gently waffle or muse on a subject which one clearly knows little about. The noun nurddle means: A type of shot in cricket A cylindrical shaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18707,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions\/18707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}