doodle

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈduːdl̩/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdud(ə)l/ Rhymes: -uːdəl Hyphenation: doo‧dle === Etymology 1 === Originally dialectal, from Low German dudeldopp (“simpleton”). Influenced by dawdle. Compare also German dudeln (“to play (the 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) (obsolete) A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person. 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. 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! A small mindless sketch, etc. (slang, sometimes childish) The penis. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:doodle. ===== Synonyms ===== (fool): see also Thesaurus:fool. (penis): see also Thesaurus:penis. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== doddle fadoodle flapdoodle ==== Verb ==== doodle (third-person singular simple present doodles, present participle doodling, simple past and past participle doodled) (ambitransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly. (intransitive, with with and/or around) To engage in something non-seriously; fiddle. (Scotland) To drone like a bagpipe. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Extracted from Labradoodle, itself a blend of labrador and poodle ==== Noun ==== doodle (plural doodles) Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog. === See also === whoopsie-doodle (probably etymologically unrelated) == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English doodle. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdudol/ [ˈd̪u.ð̞ol] Rhymes: -udol === Noun === doodle m (plural doodles) doodle ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.