doodle
Syllables: doo·dleUK/ˈduːdl̩//ˈdud(ə)l/
doodle noun: a fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
Noun (1)
doodle (plural doodles)
- A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
- Mrs. Sneak. Why doodle! jackanapes! harkee, who am I?
Sneak. Come, don't go to call names: am I? vhy my vife, and I am your master.1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W. Lowndes (1797), page 43 - Perceval. Weep on! weep on! thou flouted loon,
Weep on! weep on! thou gowky doodle!1812, "THE TEARS OF SIR VICARY!!!", The Scourge, 2 March 1812, page 231
- Mrs. Sneak. Why doodle! jackanapes! harkee, who am I?
- A small mindless sketch, etc.
- The penis.
- His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, Wakefield Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 189
- Her favorite had been when she'd convinced the lascivious guards that Dinah's red hair meant she was a witch, and if they molested her, their doodles would shrivel up between their legs and fall off. Daisy had assured her that no man would risk losing his doodle.1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, Pocket Star Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 43
Verb
doodle (third-person singular simple present doodles, present participle doodling, simple past and past participle doodled)
- To draw or scribble aimlessly.
- The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.
- The managing director doodled.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 32
- To engage in something non-seriously; fiddle.
- I've been expecting women's music finally to discover New Wave and technopop, and this album is the evidence that someone has been peaking ^([sic]) at music videos and doodling around with sythesizers.1984 August 4, Maida Tilchen, “Sex, Politics, and Good Vibes”, in Gay Community News, page 9
- I can tell you that he does indeed spend a lot of time on business and social calls, social chats, doodling around on AOL, and skimming the daily paper while those patients are piling up.2003 February 23, 14tonks, “More doctors charging for e-mail and phone calls”, in sci.med.transcription (Usenet)
- To drone like a bagpipe.
Noun (2)
doodle (plural doodles)
- Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.
doodle meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
doodle in Tamil
- டூடுல், டூடில்
doodle in Marathi
- डूडल, डुडल, डूडूल
doodle in Urdu
- ڈوڈل, ڈوڈیل, ڈوڈل کرنا
doodle in Bengali
- ডুডল, ডুডল করুন, ডুডেল
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- doodle in Telugu
- డూడుల్, డూడల్, డూడిల్
- doodle in Malayalam
- ഡൂഡിൽ, ഡൂഡൽ, ഡൂഡിൽ ചെയ്യുക
- doodle in Kannada
- ಗೀಚು, ಹೊತ್ತುಕಳೆ
- doodle in Punjabi
- ਡੂਡਲ, ਡੁੱਡਲ, ਡੂਡੁਲ
- doodle in Gujarati
- ડૂડલ, ડુડલ, ડૂડુલ
- doodle in Odia
- ଡୁଡଲ୍, ଡୁଡଲ, ଡୁଡଲ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ
- doodle in Nepali
- डुडल, डूडल, डूडुल
- doodle in Tagalog
- guri, gumuri, magguri
Examples of doodle in a sentence
- Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.
- He also spends several hours each day walking his two black doodles, Sirius and Sonny.
- He was sketching me as I doodled in my own book, almost like an inception.
Forms of doodle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | doodles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | doodles |
| present participle | doodling |
| past participle | doodled |
| past | doodled |
Origin of doodle
Originally dialectal, from Low German dudeldopp (“simpleton”). Influenced by dawdle. Compare also German dudeln (“to play (the bagpipe)”). The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. German variants of the etymon include Dudeltopf, Dudentopf, Dudenkopf, Dude and Dödel. American English dude may be a derivation of doodle. The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.
Extracted from Labradoodle, itself a blend of labrador and poodle
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Questions about doodle
- What does doodle mean?
- Doodle means a fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
- What is doodle in Tamil?
- Doodle in Tamil is டூடுல், டூடில். See Doodle meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is doodle?
- Doodle can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce doodle?
- Doodle is pronounced /ˈduːdl̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of doodle?
- The plural of doodle is doodles.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: doodle (page history and authors); doodle (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doodle (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doodle (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doodle (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doodle (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doodle (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doodle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); doodle (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doodle (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doodle (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doodle (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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