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doo⋅dle

1  [dood-l] verb, -dled, -dling, noun
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–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.
Origin:
1935–40, Americanism; orig. sense, fool (n.)

Related forms:
doodler, noun

doo⋅dle

2  [dood-l]
–noun Chiefly North Midland U.S.
a small pile of hay; haystack.
Also called hay doodle.

Origin:
prob. extracted from cock-a-doodle-do; a euphemism for cock 3 , to avoid assoc. with cock 1 , in sense “penis”
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doo·dle   (dōōd'l)   
v.   doo·dled, doo·dling, doo·dles

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

[English dialectal, to fritter away time, perhaps from doodle, fool; see doodlebug.]
doo'dler n.
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Doodle

Doo"dle\, n. [Cf. Dawdle.] A trifler; a simple fellow.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : doodle
Spanish: hacer garabatos,
German: kritzeln,
Japanese: いたずら書きをする
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doodle  (v.)
"scrawl aimlessly," 1937, from dial. doodle, dudle "fritter away time, trifle." It was a noun meaning "simple fellow" from 1628. Doodle-bug "type of beetle or larvae" is c.1866, Southern U.S. dialect; the same word was applied 1944 to Ger. flying bombs in R.A.F. slang.
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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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