doodle
pronunciation
How to pronounce doodle in British English:
UK [ˈduːdl]
How to pronounce doodle in American English:
US [ˈduːdl]
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- Noun:
- an aimless drawing
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- Verb:
- make a doodle; draw aimlessly
Word Origin
- doodle (v.)
- "scrawl aimlessly," 1935, from dialectal doodle, dudle "fritter away time, trifle," or associated with dawdle. It was a noun meaning "simple fellow" from 1620s. LONGFELLOW: That's a name we made up back home for people who make foolish designs on paper when they're thinking. It's called doodling. Almost everybody's a doodler. Did you ever see a scratch pad in a telephone booth? People draw the most idiotic pictures when they're thinking. Dr. Von Holler, here, could probably think up a long name for it, because he doodles all the time. ["Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," screenplay by Robert Riskin, 1936; based on "Opera Hat," serialized in "American Magazine" beginning May 1935, by Clarence Aldington Kelland] Related: Doodled; Doodling. Doodle Sack. A bagpipe. Dutch. -- Also the private parts of a woman. ["Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]
Example
- 1. The doodle is the latest in the recent rehabilitation of confucius .
- 2. Doodle was about the craziest brother a boy ever had .
- 3. Despite the unfortunate name , doodle is a dead-simple web app for scheduling a meeting .
- 4. I used to doodle on my papers .
- 5. Google doodle is now mobile .