Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈduː.dəl/
doodle (plural doodles)
- (obsolete) A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
- 1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W. Lowndes (1797), [http://books.google.com/books?id=52xMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA43&dq=%22doodle,+jackanapes%22 page 43]:
- Mrs. Sneak. Why doodle! jackanapes! harkee, who am I?
- Sneak. Come, don't go to call names: am I? vhy my vife, and I am your master.
- 1812, "THE TEARS OF SIR VICARY!!!", The Scourge, 2 March 1812, page 231 ↗:
- Perceval. Weep on! weep on! thou flouted loon,
- Weep on! weep on! thou gowky doodle!
- 1837, "Carmen Inaugurale", Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, November 1837, page 676 ↗:
- Courtier, it was thine to bow —
- Great Arthur he, and Doodle thou!
- 1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W. Lowndes (1797), [http://books.google.com/books?id=52xMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA43&dq=%22doodle,+jackanapes%22 page 43]:
- A small mindless sketch, etc.
- (slang, sometimes childish) Penis.
- 1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, Wakefield Press (1993), ISBN 9781862543102, page 189 ↗:
- His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.
- 1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, Pocket Star Books (1996), ISBN 9780671529826, page 43 ↗:
- Her favorite had been when she'd convinced the lascivious guards that Dinah's red hair meant she was a witch, and if they molested her, their doodles would shrivel up between their legs and fall off. Daisy had assured her that no man would risk losing his doodle.
- 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, Brava Books (2011), ISBN 9780758263094, unnumbered page ↗:
- All of Dwight's parts wandered, especially his doodle. He had the wandering-est doodle in three states. His doodle had its own set of legs. His doodle was hardly at home. Heck, according to rumor Dwight Farris's doodle was hardly ever in his pants.
- 1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, Wakefield Press (1993), ISBN 9781862543102, page 189 ↗:
- (fool) see also Thesaurus:fool.
- (penis) see also Thesaurus:penis.
- Russian: болва́н
- French: griffonnage, gribouillis
- German: Gekritzel, (coll.) Kritzelei
- Italian: scarabocchio, scarabocchi, girigogolo
- Portuguese: rabisco, garatuja
- Russian: каракуля
- Spanish: garabato, garrapato, monigote, garabateo
doodle (doodles, present participle doodling; past and past participle doodled)
- (ambitransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.
- The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.
- (Scotland) To drone like a bagpipe.
- French: griffonner, gribouiller
- German: kritzeln
- Portuguese: rabiscar, garatujar
- Russian: чиркать
- Spanish: garabatear
doodle (plural doodles)
- Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.
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