I watched a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' *The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby* the other day, and came across a bit of dialogue I couldn't quite decipher:

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> **A character named Squeers**: I hope you didn't set out the good cut of meat.
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> **His wife**: Do I look like a *noddy*?
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What does *noddy* mean exactly? Is it archaic slang? I'm guessing it means something close to "fool" here, but I want to be quite sure of the connotation of the word and when one would use it.