Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To scribble aimlessly, especially when preoccupied.
- v. To kill time.
- v. To draw (figures) while preoccupied.
- n. A figure, design, or scribble drawn or written absent-mindedly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To dandle.
- n. A trifler; a simple fellow.
- To drone, as a bagpipe.
Wiktionary
- n. dated A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
- n. A small mindless sketch, etc.
- n. childish Penis.
- v. To draw or scribble (something) aimlessly
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A trifler; a simple fellow.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a doodle; draw aimlessly
- n. an aimless drawing
Etymologies
- Influenced by dawdle, from German dudeln ("to play (the bagpipe)"), from dudel ("a bagpipe"), from Czech or Polish dudy ("a bagpipe"), from Turkish düdük ("a flute"). (Wiktionary)
- English dialectal, to fritter away time, perhaps from doodle, fool; see doodlebug. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Our courts need the kind of fairness that a liberal lesbo-doodle is just not able to provide.”
“May 5th, 2010 at 6: 44 pm rock-a-doodle is the name of a don bluth film poloteamusa”
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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.”
“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.”
“(The composer for this film, doodle-doodle-doodle, is Philip Glass.)”
“This wasn't a big problem until 1976, when the US changed its rules and did away with copyright registration, so that everyone who created anything got an automatic lifetime-plus-decades copyright on it, from the lowliest napkin doodle to the most trivial Usenet post.”
“According to the authors of a book called "Presidential Doodles", this doodle is a "drawing of a jack-o’-lantern-style face and an ostrich-like bird surely ranks as one of the greatest doodles in presidential history.”
“The home-page "doodle" -- as the company calls each of them -- features Eisner's iconic character The Spirit, as well as the Bronx tenement buildings that the pioneering cartoonist rendered so elegantly in his ever-influential '70s graphic novel "A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories.”
The Washington Post: WILL EISNER'S GOOGLE LOGO: Doodle marks 'The Spirit' creator's 94th birthday
“What's more, to celebrate Jim Henson's 75th birthday, Google Inc. worked with The Jim Henson Company to re-work the search engine's home-page logo, using Muppets-inspired puppets to create a new design called a "doodle.”
The Wall Street Journal: Jim Henson's Earliest Screenplay Gets Graphic Novel Treatment
““There once was a dandy called doodle,” said Sandra wearily.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doodle’.
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The Penis Game
Euphemisms for the penis.
See also:
A Testicle by Any Other Name
Ward, I'm worried about the beavermale interfemoral..., penis, dick, cock, prick, willy, percy, peter, one-eyed trouser ..., piece of pork, wife's best friend, dong and 79 more...
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Noodle and such
noodle, ladle, middle, model, muddle, addle, paddle, piddle, dreidel, toddle, poodle, streudel and 16 more...
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Scribblative ✍
Scrawlings, notes, odd writings, and messages.
doodle, notation, scrawl, tracing, scribble, latrinalia, sketch, squiggle, notelet, post-it, chicken scratch, caligraphy and 88 more...
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VVCle
Look at the list for examples
doodle, google, beetle, sheeple, steeple, poodle, noodle, needle, feeble, bamboozle, rootle, creeple and 11 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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Slang words of Irish origin according...
Compare the etymologies of these words as given in the OED with the Gaelic backgrounders in this book, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads (Counterpunch, 2007). Awai...
smack, snazzy, pussy, geek, dork, dude, smudge, snap, slugger, slum, scam, slew and 102 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Tickles my humerus
I find these to be inherently funny.
cow tipping, bumblebee, homoscedasticity, seattle, wagga wagga, booby, pants, guacamole, poodle, fanny pack, nincompoop, svenborgia and 161 more...
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NihonGoose's Words
colander, doily, nacre, mandible, carapace, glutinous, penumbral, skein, mollify, colloquial, sanguine, chagrin and 118 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for doodle.
yarb 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 Jul 23, 2008
abraxaszugzwang cloodle was making me snicker the other night. Jan 23, 2007
lunarbabee It's not just doodle. Any double "oo" makes me a little giddy. Is that sad. I don't think so. Jan 23, 2007