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doodled

doodled is the simple past and past participle of doodle.

Meaning of doodle

Verb

doodle (third-person singular simple present doodles, present participle doodling, simple past and past participle doodled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.
    • The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.
  2. (intransitive) 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
  3. (Scotland) To drone like a bagpipe.

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Questions about doodled

What is doodled the simple past and past participle of?
Doodled is the simple past and past participle of doodle.

Words near doodled in the dictionary

  1. doodlebug
  2. doodlebugger
  3. doodlebuggers
  4. doodlebugging
  5. doodlebugs
  6. doodled
  7. doodlehead
  8. doodleheads
  9. doodlelike
  10. doodler
  11. doodlers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doodled (page history and authors); doodle (page history and authors). 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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