doddle
Syllables: dod·dle/ˈdɒdl̩/US/ˈdɑd(ə)l/
doddle noun: a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple. Also the misspelling of dawdle.
Noun (1)
doddle (plural doddles)
- A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
- Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified?
Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle.1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian - [Dr Bullard]'s on his hols. I'm standing in. Anyway, this one's a doddle. Death by strangulation, about five or six days ago at a guess.1999 February 3, Anthony Horowitz, “Strangler's Wood”, in Midsomer Murders
- Synonyms:
- bagatelle, waltz, breeze, cake and gingerbread, cakewalk, child's play, cinch, doss, duck soup, easy pickings
- Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified?
Verb
doddle (third-person singular simple present doddles, present participle doddling, simple past and past participle doddled)
- To dodder.
- […] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.1874, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, My Time, and what I've Done with it: An Autobiography, page 369
Noun (2)
doddle (plural doddles)
Also used as
doddle is also the misspelling of dawdle.
Synonyms of doddle
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Forms of doddle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | doddles |
| alternative form | dawdle |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | doddles |
| present participle | doddling |
| past participle | doddled |
| past | doddled |
Origin of doddle
Uncertain. Possibly from dialectal English doddle (“to toddle, to sway, to nod drowsily”).
Words that rhyme with doddle
Questions about doddle
- What does doddle mean?
- Doddle means a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
- What part of speech is doddle?
- Doddle can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce doddle?
- Doddle is pronounced /ˈdɒdl̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of doddle?
- The plural of doddle is doddles.
Words near doddle in the dictionary
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