doodle Definition
doo·dle (do̵̅o̅d′'l)
intransitive verb -·dled, -·dling
- to move aimlessly or foolishly; dawdle
- ☆ to scribble or draw aimlessly or nervously, esp. when the attention is elsewhere; make doodles
- ☆ Informal to play music in a casual, informal way
Etymology: Ger dudeln, to play (the bagpipe), hence to trifle, dawdle (< Pol dudlić < dudy, a bagpipe < Turk duduk, a flute); reinforced by echoic tootle & dawdle
noun
☆ a mark, design, figure, etc. made in doodling
doodle Related Forms
doodle Usage Examples
Object
- type: Your Stars Part 3 Libra Internet is My True Agent You know the type -- that doodling type.
- sketch: A child's doodled sketch can receive the same protection as a contemporary artwork in the Tate Gallery.
- day: Painter and printmaker Diana Milstein was just doodling one day in 1994 when " Miss S appeared out of the blue " .
Converse of object
- draw: A further 300 celebrities supported us by drawing doodles for National Doodle Day.
- do: Do a doodle, pull the paper down, tear off your masterpiece neatly and start all over again.
- have: Make a quick sketch, import a photo or map, or just have a little doodle.
- create: Now you can create colored doodles, then clear the screen and start again.
Adjective modifier
- little: Make a quick sketch, import a photo or map, or just have a little doodle.
- winning: The winning doodle is to be displayed on Google's UK home page.
- abstract: The large works in pen and ink imitate the small marks of the tiny sketches, be they figurative images or abstract doodles.
- mere: Without the eerie drone of the song and the marriage of word and music, the lyric seems a mere doodle.
Preposition: on
paper: After doodling on the paper for a while Levi asks if she can paint.
Modifying Another Word
- just: You can also just doodle away, the same way you would with a regular notepad.
- away: You can also just doodle away, the same way you would with a regular notepad.
- always: He has always doodled, but now he has his sketch book with him all the time.
Modifies a noun
- bug: The station was damaged by a ' doodle bug ' flying bomb in the last war.
- control: To demonstrate this create 3 buttons on the VB test form under the doodle control.
Used with why or when
when: The pen is for doodling when you're stuck.
Preposition: in
margin: And I would doodle incessantly in the margins of my exercise books!
Followed by an intransitive particle
around: You would catch him doodling around on the piano, trying to come up with something different in the chord structure or the melody.
Browse dictionary entries near doodle
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