Synonyms for doodle
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dood-l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdud l |
Définition of doodle
Origin :- "scrawl aimlessly," 1935, from dialectal doodle, dudle "fritter away time, trifle," or associated with dawdle. 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: Doodled; Doodling.
- Doodle Sack. A bagpipe. Dutch. -- Also the private parts of a woman. ["Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]
- verb draw casually
- "No doodle bugs in mine, if you please," answered Stacy Brown.
- Extract from : « The Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge » by Frank Gee Patchin
- He was quite an adept at whistling the air of "Yankee doodle."
- Extract from : « An Englishman's Travels in America » by John Benwell
- "Oh, the water is too cold to go swimming now," said Mr. Doodle.
- Extract from : « Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble » by Howard R. Garis
- Even with Doodle's aid he could not have a chance in the race.
- Extract from : « The Claverings » by Anthony Trollope
- You didn't save one charcoal sketch, one line drawing, one bit of a doodle on scratch paper?
- Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn
- He places the pans in the sun where the grease will soften and goes skirmishing for ants and doodle bugs.
- Extract from : « Woodcraft and Camping » by George Washington Sears (Nessmuk)
- I whispered "Yankee," Shanghae-like he responded "Doodle," and arm-in-arm we started.
- Extract from : « Doesticks, What He Says » by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
- Doodle has found that he must throw himself upon the country, chiefly in the form of sovereigns and beer.
- Extract from : « Bleak House » by Charles Dickens
- The mighty business is nearly over by this time, and Doodle will throw himself off the country in a few days more.
- Extract from : « Bleak House » by Charles Dickens
- And no matter what they thought of “Yankee Doodle Whitey,” he knew that he was loyal.
- Extract from : « Tom Slade on a Transport » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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