What does Doodle mean?

Definitions for Doodle
ˈdud ldoo·dle

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scribble, scrabble, doodleverb

    an aimless drawing

  2. doodleverb

    make a doodle; draw aimlessly

Wiktionary

  1. doodlenoun

    A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.

  2. doodlenoun

    A small mindless sketch, etc.

  3. doodlenoun

    Penis.

  4. doodleverb

    To draw or scribble (something) aimlessly

  5. Etymology: Influenced by dawdle, from dudeln, from dudel, from Czech or Polish dudy, from düdük.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Doodlenoun

    a cant word,

    Etymology: perhaps corrupted from do little, Faineant.

Wikipedia

  1. Doodle

    A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be composed of random and abstract lines or shapes, generally without ever lifting the drawing device from the paper, in which case it is usually called a scribble. Doodling and scribbling are most often associated with young children and toddlers, because their lack of hand–eye coordination and lower mental development often make it very difficult for any young child to keep their coloring attempts within the line art of the subject. Despite this, it is not uncommon to see such behavior with adults, in which case it is generally done jovially, out of boredom. Typical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available. Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns, textures, or phallic scenes. Most people who doodle often remake the same shape or type of doodle throughout their lifetime.

ChatGPT

  1. doodle

    A doodle is a simple, unstructured or casual drawing or sketch, often made absentmindedly or while one's attention is focused elsewhere. It is not usually detailed or complex, and can be created with any writing or drawing instrument on any surface.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Doodlenoun

    a trifler; a simple fellow

  2. Etymology: [Cf. Dawdle.]

Wikidata

  1. Doodle

    A doodle is an unfocused or unconscious drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes. Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available. Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes and patterns, textures, banners with legends, and animations made by drawing a scene sequence in various pages of a book or notebook.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Doodle

    dōōd′l, v.t. (Scot.) to dandle.

  2. Doodle

    dōōd′l, v.i. (Scot.) to drone, as a bagpipe.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Doodle in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Doodle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Doodle in a Sentence

  1. Erik Kwakkel:

    It's amazing to think that people doodled in medieval times in a similar way to how they doodle today, when you see the monks expressing their personalities, their sense of humor, it makes you feel like you're traveling back through time. It's like you're going through the keyhole and sitting right next to them.

  2. Liat Ben-Rafael:

    We wanted everyone to see the doodle in the same way.

  3. Annette Greene:

    This was not cheating, first-graders doodle all over the exams.

  4. Little Rock:

    Civilization culminates in the power-press. It is the grand total of the difference between a boastful United Statian and a beastly Hottentot, —between Yankee Doodle and Timbucktoodle

  5. Jason Sudeikis:

    I'll have a better understanding of why in a year, and an even better one in two, and an even greater one in five, and it'll go from being, you know, a book of my life to becoming a chapter to a paragraph to a line to a word to a doodle.

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