doodle
verb/ˈduːdl/
/ˈduːdl/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they doodle | /ˈduːdl/ /ˈduːdl/ |
| he / she / it doodles | /ˈduːdlz/ /ˈduːdlz/ |
| past simple doodled | /ˈduːdld/ /ˈduːdld/ |
| past participle doodled | /ˈduːdld/ /ˈduːdld/ |
| -ing form doodling | /ˈduːdlɪŋ/ /ˈduːdlɪŋ/ |
- to draw lines, shapes, etc., especially when you are bored or thinking about something else
- I often doodle when I'm on the phone.
- She had doodled all over her class notes.
Word Originearly 17th cent. (originally as a noun denoting a fool, later as a verb in the sense ‘make a fool of, cheat’): from Low German dudeltopf, dudeldopp ‘simpleton’. Current senses date from the 1930s.
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