means Long, thin strips of dough made from flour and water (sometimes egg), boiled until tender and eaten across countless cuisines.

from From German Nudel, a noodle or dumpling of uncertain deeper origin — possibly related to Knödel (dumpling). English borrowed it in the 18th century. Despite the worldwide spread of the food, the word itself is firmly Germanic; the separate slang 'noodle' for head or fool is an older, unrelated English term that may have nudged its way into the same spelling by coincidence.