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NOOGIE
Definition of NOOGIE
noun
An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.
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Where it comes from
Unknown, possibly from Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), or possibly from Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”) (see Eicha/Lamentations 1:3) or possibly via an alteration of nudge, matching the alteration of wedge to wedgie.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NOOGIE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 83, 11 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 54, 13 July 2026.
Built from these letters
NOOGIE starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGINOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found NOOGIE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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