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Definition of Doodle
1. Noun. An aimless drawing.
2. Verb. Make a doodle; draw aimlessly.
Definition of Doodle
1. n. A trifler; a simple fellow.
Definition of Doodle
1. Noun. (dated) A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person. ¹
2. Noun. A small mindless sketch, etc. ¹
3. Noun. (childish) Penis. ¹
4. Verb. To draw or scribble (something) aimlessly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doodle
1. to draw or scribble aimlessly [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doodle
Literary usage of Doodle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"ANOTHER YANKEE doodle. Yankee doodle had a mind To whip the Southern ...
Yankee doodle said be found, By all the census figures, That he could starve the ..."
2. The Scrap Book (1906)
"Yankee doodle, keep it up, Yankee doodle Dandy; Mind the music and the step, ...
Yankee doodle, etc. The 'lasses they eat ev'ry day Would keep a house in ..."
3. Poetry for Children by Samuel Eliot (1879)
"COCK-A-doodle-DOO. A little boy got out of bed, — 'Twas only six o'clock, — And
out of window ... And all the answer that he heard Was, " Cock-a-doodle-do ! ..."
4. Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil War by Richard Grant White (1866)
"YANKEE doodle had a mind To whip the Southern traitors, Because they did n't choose
... Yankee doodle said he found By all the census figures, That he could ..."
5. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"127 COCK A doodle DOO Cock a doodle doo! My dame has lost her shoe; ... Cock a
doodle doo! What is my dame to do? Till master finds his fiddling stick, ..."
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