doodle

Etymology 1
Originally dialectal, from. Influenced by. Compare also 🇨🇬.

The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. German variants of the etymon include, , , and. American English 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

 * 1)  A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
 * 2) * 1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W. Lowndes (1797), 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.
 * 1) * 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!
 * 1) A small mindless sketch, etc.
 * 2)  The penis.
 * 1)  The penis.

Synonyms

 * see also Thesaurus:fool.
 * see also Thesaurus:penis.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, truhlík,
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Russian:, , , , , , , , ,


 * Arabic:
 * Gulf Arabic: شخبط
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: драскулка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: desegnaĉo, liberdesegno
 * Finnish: riipustus
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, , girigogolo
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: krusedull
 * Polish: gryzmoły,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, garrapato, ,
 * Tagalog: guri
 * Turkish:
 * Waray-Waray: gu-ding


 * Czech:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Turkish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To draw or scribble aimlessly.
 * 2)  To engage in something non-seriously; fiddle.
 * 3)  To drone like a bagpipe.
 * 1)  To drone like a bagpipe.
 * 1)  To drone like a bagpipe.
 * 1)  To drone like a bagpipe.
 * 1)  To drone like a bagpipe.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: драскам си
 * Finnish: riipustella,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Italian: scarabocchiare
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: drodle, krusedull
 * Polish:, gryzmolić, nagryzmolić
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: čečkati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gumuri, magguri

Etymology 2
Extracted from, itself a blend of and

Noun

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

Etymology
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