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doodles

doodles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of doodle.

doodles is the plural 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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Phrases with doodles

Questions about doodles

What is doodles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Doodles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of doodle.

Words near doodles in the dictionary

  1. doodlehead
  2. doodleheads
  3. doodlelike
  4. doodler
  5. doodlers
  6. doodles
  7. doodlesack
  8. doodlesacks
  9. doodley
  10. doodley-squat
  11. doodling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doodles (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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