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doo·dle (do̵̅o̅d'l)

intransitive verb -·dled, -·dling

  1. to move aimlessly or foolishly; dawdle
  2. ☆ to scribble or draw aimlessly or nervously, esp. when the attention is elsewhere; make doodles
  3. 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

doo·dler noun

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.

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