Definify.com

Definition 2024

noodling ‎(countable and uncountable, plural noodlings)

(uncountable) The practice and sport of noodling (fishing for catfish using the bare hands).
(countable) Musical improvisation.
- 1991, Gunther Schuller, The swing era: the development of jazz, 1930-1945
  Unlike Basie's increasingly repetitious piano noodlings, Young's melodic gestures had a way of staying fresh and inventive.

noodling