noddle vs nous

noddle and nous both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
noddle	Yes	No	No	No
nous	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, nous is a hypernym of noddle; that is, nous is a word with a broader meaning than noddle:

noddle: an informal British expression for head or mind
nous: that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason

Other hypernyms of noddle include brain, head, mind, psyche.

noddle (noun)	nous (noun)
an informal British expression for head or mind	that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
	common sense