Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To draw or sketch aimlessly, especially when preoccupied.
- intransitive verb To kill time; dawdle.
- intransitive verb To draw (figures) while preoccupied.
- noun A figure or design drawn or written absent-mindedly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dandle.
- noun A trifler; a simple fellow.
- To drone, as a bagpipe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trifler; a simple fellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
- noun A small
mindless sketch , etc. - noun childish
Penis . - verb To
draw orscribble (something)aimlessly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a doodle; draw aimlessly
- noun an aimless drawing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Jeffrey struggles with the situation until he discovers that the most strong-willed doodle is powerless against a well-told tale.
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Our courts need the kind of fairness that a liberal lesbo-doodle is just not able to provide.
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Jeffrey struggles with the situation until he discovers that the most strong-willed doodle is powerless against a well-told tale.
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Jeffrey struggles with the situation until he discovers that the most strong-willed doodle is powerless against a well-told tale.
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She titled her doodle "A New Beginning" to express her wish that "out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more."
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She titled her doodle "A New Beginning" to express her wish that "out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more."
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She titled her doodle "A New Beginning" to express her wish that "out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more."
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She titled her doodle "A New Beginning" to express her wish that "out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more."
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(The composer for this film, doodle-doodle-doodle, is Philip Glass.)
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A “doodle” is a dog that is part purebred poodle, part something else.
lunarbabee commented on the word doodle
It's not just doodle. Any double "oo" makes me a little giddy. Is that sad. I don't think so.
January 23, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word doodle
cloodle was making me snicker the other night.
January 23, 2007
yarb commented on the word doodle
He speaks to me and doodles the disorder's initial letter with green biro in his desk-diary. Croissant? Banana? Sickle blade?
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
July 23, 2008