{"id":3936,"date":"2010-11-22T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2010-11-22T15:16:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:16:33","slug":"nurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3936","title":{"rendered":"Nurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word <strong>nurdle<\/strong> in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312427905\/omniglot-20\">book<\/a> I read last week. Which of the following definitions do you think is the correct one?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nurdle, noun: A small furry creature that lives in burrows in the hills of Yorkshire<\/li>\n<li>Nurdle, verb: To score runs (in cricket) by gently nudging the ball into vacant areas of the field.<\/li>\n<li>Nurdle, noun: Something small and cute<\/li>\n<li>Nurdle, verb: To waffle or muse on a subject about which you know little.<\/li>\n<li>Nurdle, noun: A plastic pellet<\/li>\n<li>Nurdle, verb: To faff about doing nothing constructive.<\/li>\n<li>Nurdle, noun: A blob of toothpaste shaped like a wave.<\/li>\n<li>Nurdle, verb: To play a (tiddly)wink so close to the pot that it\u2019s almost impossible for your opponent to pot it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Can you suggest any other definitions for this word?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word nurdle in a book I read last week. Which of the following definitions do you think is the correct one? Nurdle, noun: A small furry creature that lives in burrows in the hills of Yorkshire Nurdle, verb: To score runs (in cricket) by gently nudging the ball into vacant areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","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=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}