doodling
doodling is the present participle and gerund of doodle.
Meaning of doodle
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.
- 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
- To drone like a bagpipe.
Noun
doodling (plural doodlings)
- Something doodled; a careless sketch.
- So the persistent researcher may still track down at least a few of Wilde’s own annotations and doodlings and wine stains and broken spines, parsing them for whatever they may reveal.2009 August 9, Michael Shae, “Wilde’s Library”, in New York Times
Forms of doodling
| plural | doodlings |
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Questions about doodling
- What does doodling mean?
- Doodling means something doodled; a careless sketch.
- What is doodling the present participle and gerund of?
- Doodling is the present participle and gerund of doodle.
- What part of speech is doodling?
- Doodling is a noun.
- What is the plural of doodling?
- The plural of doodling is doodlings.
Words near doodling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: doodling (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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