doodle
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l verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1.
to draw or scribble idly: He doodled during the whole lecture.
2.
to waste (time) in aimless or foolish activity.
3.
Dialect. to deceive; cheat.
noun
4.
a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.
5.
Archaic. a foolish or silly person.
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Doodle
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1935–40, Americanism; orig. sense, fool (noun)
1935–40, Americanism; orig. sense, fool (noun)
Related forms
doo·dler, noun
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doodle (ˈduːdəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb (often foll by away) | |
| 1. | to scribble or draw aimlessly |
| 2. | to play or improvise idly |
| 3. | (US) to dawdle or waste time |
| —n | |
| 4. | a shape, picture, etc, drawn aimlessly |
| [C20: perhaps from C17 doodle a foolish person, but influenced in meaning by | |
| 'doodler | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
doodle
"scrawl aimlessly," 1935, from dial. doodle, dudle "fritter away time, trifle." 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: Doodling. Doodle-bug "type of beetle or larvae" is c.1866, Southern U.S. dialect; the same word was applied 1944 in R.A.F. slang to German V-model flying bombs
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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doodle
absent-minded scrawl or scribble, usually executed in some unexpected place, such as the margin of a book or manuscript or a blotting pad when the doodler is preoccupied with some other activity, such as attending a meeting or lecture. The word is supposed to have gained currency because of its use in the film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), though the practice of course is much older, doodles being found in medieval manuscripts, as well as in the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci and on the margins of manuscripts written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Example sentences
Draw designs or doodle images on one side of the foam shape using a pencil.
It also means that you could scale up a tiny doodle and print it onto a billboard with no loss in quality.
Several buildings have maps and each has a doodle poll for scheduling lunch time walks with co-workers.
It is straight, unmitigated flap-doodle, this thoroughly implausible tale.
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