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Definition doodle

Etymology

Influenced by dawdle, from German dudeln (“to play (the bagpipe)”), from dudel (“a bagpipe”), from Czech or Polish dudy (“a bagpipe”).

The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. German variants of the etymon include Dudeltopf, Dudentopf, Dudenkopf, Dude and Dödel. American English dude may be a derivation of doodle.

The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.

Noun

doodle (plural doodles)

1. (obsolete) A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
2. A small mindless sketch, etc.
3. (slang, sometimes childish) Penis.

Verb

doodle (third-person singular simple present doodles, present participle doodling, simple past and past participle doodled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.
2. (Scotland) To drone like a bagpipe.

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