Noddy is a fictional character created by British children's author Enid Blyton.

One of the most enduring and best-loved of children's characters, Noddy is a little wooden doll who lives in Toyland. His best friend is Big-Ears - a brownie. Noddy lives next to a family of teddy bears, and owns a self-aware car. Noddy originally appeared in a series of illustrated books, but later became popular with a new generation of children as a result of an animated television adaptation.

Written at a time of segregation, the original Noddy stories featured Golliwogs - black-faced woollen dolls. These dolls were popular in the UK at the time the stories were written, but have fallen out of favour because of a better awareness of race relations.

Recently, in the TV series and a new series of books, Noddy has been updated, with the original Gollywog characters replaced by other sorts of toys (for example Mr.Golly who ran the Toytown garage was replaced by a teddybear), and with the addition of ethnic dolls.

External links

• Noddy's Website (http://www.noddy.com/)

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Sometimes in computer programming, noddy is used as a slang adjective meaning "elementary, trivial, petty": for example, in writing a subroutine to solve simultaneous linear equations, the "Noddy" case is where there is only one equation and one variable.

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Noddy is also the name for several species of tropical seabirds in the tern family

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Noddy is also the name for an old English card game which is one of the ancestors of Cribbage. fr:Oui-Oui

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Noddy inspired the Apocalyptic folk music album, Swastikas for Noddy, released by the English dark folk group, Current 93, in 1987. The title and every Noddy reference on the LP was changed to Goddy for the CD reissue.