doodle

plural doodles

1. obsoleteA fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.

   Courtier, it was thine to bow — Great Arthur he, and Doodle thou!

   1837 November, “Carmen Inaugurale”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 676

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   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.

   1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W. Lowndes (1797), page 43

   Perceval. Weep on! weep on! thou flouted loon, Weep on! weep on! thou gowky doodle!

   1812, "THE TEARS OF SIR VICARY!!!", The Scourge, 2 March 1812, page 231

2. A small mindless sketch, etc.

   Synonyms: doodling

3. childishslangsometimesThe penis.

   His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.

   1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, Wakefield Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 189

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   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.

   1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, Pocket Star Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 43

   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.

   2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, Brava Books, published 2011, →ISBN

present singular third person doodles · participle present doodling · participle past doodled · past doodled

1. ambitransitiveTo draw or scribble aimlessly.

   The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.

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   The managing director doodled.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 32

2. intransitiveTo engage in something non-seriously; fiddle.

   I can tell you that he does indeed spend a lot of time on business and social calls, social chats, doodling around on AOL, and skimming the daily paper while those patients are piling up.

   2003 February 23, 14tonks, “More doctors charging for e-mail and phone calls”, in sci.med.transcription (Usenet)

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   I've been expecting women's music finally to discover New Wave and technopop, and this album is the evidence that someone has been peaking ^([sic]) at music videos and doodling around with sythesizers.

   1984 August 4, Maida Tilchen, “Sex, Politics, and Good Vibes”, in Gay Community News, page 9

   For quite a long time now (at least the 1990s) people have been doodling with the idea of separating space and time again and perhaps endowing them with some properties currently not assigned to them.

   2016 May 19, JanPB, “Quantization of Gravity”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet)

3. ScotlandTo drone like a bagpipe.

plural doodles

1. Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.