Noodledom

Still, noodledom was nearer than vulgarity to dandyism. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)

And he had over Byron this further advantage: his noodledom was not a matter of common knowledge; whereas Byron's vulgarity had ever needed to be in the glare of the footlights of Europe. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)

We either evade the concrete moral demands, or we deny the noetic effects of sin - that is to say, all the ways our minds and senses are screwed up until he goes to work on us - when we come to some passage that violates our latest cherished canons of philosophical or scientific noodledom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Repression and mystery, he considered wholesome for girls; and he considered the enlightening of them -- to some extent -- a prudential measure for their defence; and premature instruction is a fire-water to their wild-in-woods understanding; and histrionic innocence is no doubt the bloom on corruption; also the facts of current human life, in the crude of the reports or the cooked of the sermon in the newspapers, are a noxious diet for our daughters; whom nevertheless we cannot hope to be feeding always on milk: and there is a time when their adorable pretty ignorance, if credibly it exists out of noodledom, is harmful: -- but how beautiful the shining simplicity of our dear young ❋ George Meredith (1868)