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  • noun A plait woven from multi-coloured strips of coloured plastic

Etymologies

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From French

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  • There are plenty (stargaze, make a lava lamp, do lanyards (which I learned are called scoubidou by some people, calligraphy.

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  • There are plenty (stargaze, make a lava lamp, do lanyards (which I learned are called scoubidou by some people, calligraphy.

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  • Even when they get older, it’s good too… I was sad today for some small reason and my 10 year old made me a pink and purple scoubidou… you can’t stay sad for long with one of those hanging off your keychain.

    salve 2006

  • The song’s refrain, a very jazzy “scooby-dooby-oo,” provided Distel with the title of his version—”Scoubidou”—which the French adopted as the name for the then-faddish plastic-thread craft known, in the U.S., as lanyard weaving.

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  • European version of the craft project known in America as gimp, boondoggle or making a lanyard. Pronounced like the cartoon character's name, Scooby Doo.

    April 30, 2009