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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To scribble aimlessly, especially when preoccupied.
  2. v. To kill time.
  3. v. To draw (figures) while preoccupied.
  4. n. A figure, design, or scribble drawn or written absent-mindedly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To dandle.
  2. n. A trifler; a simple fellow.
  3. To drone, as a bagpipe.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
  2. n. A small mindless sketch, etc.
  3. n. Penis.
  4. v. To draw or scribble (something) aimlessly

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A trifler; a simple fellow.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make a doodle; draw aimlessly
  2. n. an aimless drawing

Etymologies

  1. English dialectal, to fritter away time, perhaps from doodle, fool; see doodlebug.

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  • 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

‘doodle’ has been looked up 1357 times, loved by 2 people, added to 32 lists, commented on 3 times, and has a Scrabble score of 8.