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To draw (figures) while preoccupied.
n.A figure, design, or scribble drawn or written absent-mindedly.
[English dialectal, to fritter away time, perhaps from doodle, fool. See doodlebug.]
doodler doo'dler n.
verb
A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied.
The word doodle first appeared in the early seventeenth century to mean a fool or simpleton, and is thought to derive from the Low German dudeltopf, meaning "fool" or "simpleton". This is the meaning meant in the song "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.
In the movie "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" Mr. Deeds mentions that "doodle" was a word made up to describe scribblings to help a person think.
In published compilations of their materials, numerous historical figures have left behind doodles. Erasmus drew comical faces in the margins of his manuscripts and John Keats drew flowers in his medical note-books during lectures. Ralph Waldo Emerson, as a student at Harvard, decorated his composition books with somber, classical doodles, such as ornamental scrolls. In one place, he sketched a man whose feet have been bitten off by a great fish swimming nearby and added the caption, “My feet are gone. I am a fish. Yes, I am a fish!”
One famous doodler is Sergio Aragonés, who has doodled cartoons in the margins of over 400 issues of MAD Magazine.
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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - tegne kruseduller
v. tr. - slentre af sted
n. - krusedulle
Nederlands (Dutch)
krabbelen (tekenen), krabbel
Français (French)
v. intr. - gribouiller
v. tr. - gribouiller
n. - gribouillage
Deutsch (German)
n. - Kritzelei, Gekritzel
v. - kritzeln
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καλικαντζούρα, σκαρίφημα (μηχανικό/αφηρημένο μουντζούρωμα σε χαρτί)
v. - σκαριφίζω, ψευτοσκιτσάρω, μουντζουρώνω (αφηρημένα), κάνω καλικαντζούρες
Português (Portuguese)
n. - rabisco (m)
v. - rabiscar
Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - garabatear
v. tr. - garabatear
n. - garabatos
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - klotter
v. - klottra
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
涂鸦, 混时间, 乱涂, 欺骗, 乱写, 蠢人
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 塗鴉, 混時間
v. tr. - 亂塗, 欺騙
n. - 亂寫, 蠢人
한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - (멍하니) 낙서하다, 마음대로 연주하다
v. tr. - 빈둥거리다
n. - 얼간이, 낙서
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - いたずら書き
v. - いたずら書きする
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) ورقه مليئه برسوم عشوائيه أو عابثه (فعل) يرسم خطوطا أو أشكال عشوائيا خلال التفكير بشئ, يخربش, يرسم بعبث أو عشوائيه
עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - שירבט, קישקש, רימה, בזבז זמן
v. tr. - שירבט, קישקש, רימה, בזבז זמן
n. - שרבוט, קשקוש
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