meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange To any Briton born after about 1940, Noddy is Enid Blyton's simpleton hero, an odd little chap who muddles through by luck… not impossibly influenced by Dickens but clearly not vice versa So great is his - should that be her? - influence, it dwarfs what went before Still Randy Fink's Tom Noddy stands not alone but references, inter alia, My Lord Tomnoddy (Robert Barnabas Brough (1828–60