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doddle

dod·dle

Today it means: A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple. Full definition →

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The story

Uncertain. Possibly from dialectal English doddle (“to toddle, to sway, to nod drowsily”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.