doodle

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: doo=dle

OXFORD DICTIONARY

doodle, v. & n.
--v.intr. scribble or draw, esp. absent-mindedly.
--n. a scrawl or drawing made.

Idiom

doodle-bug
1 US any of various insects, esp. the larva of an ant-lion.
2 US an unscientific device for locating minerals.
3 colloq. a flying bomb.

Derivative

doodler n.

Etymology

orig. = foolish person; cf. LG dudelkopf

THESAURUS

doodle

ass, bagpipe, beat, beguile the time, bilk, black and white, blow, blow a horn, born fool, brouillon, buffoon, bugle, burn daylight, carillon, cartoon, chalk, charcoal, charcoal drawing, cheat, chiaroscuro, chisel, clarion, clown, color, consume time, copy, cozen, crayon, crosshatch, dabble, dally, dash off, daub, dawdle, defraud, delineate, delineation, depict, design, diagram, diddle, dillydally, do, donkey, double-tongue, draft, draw, drawing, ebauche, egregious ass, esquisse, fife, figure of fun, flimflam, flute, fool, footle, fribble, fritter away time, graph, gyp, hatch, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, jerk, kill time, lag, limn, line drawing, linger, lip, loiter, lollygag, lose time, lunatic, mess, mess around, milksop, mooncalf, nincompoop, ninny, overreach, paint, paint a picture, pass the time, pastel, pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing, perfect fool, picture, picturize, piddle, pipe, poke, portray, potter, puddle, putter, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, schmuck, scrabble, scratch, scrawl, scribble, scumble, shade, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch, softhead, sop, sound, stencil, study, stupid ass, tinker, tint, tomfool, tongue, toot, tootle, trace, tracing, trifle, triple-tongue, trumpet, tweedle, vignette, waste time, whistle, wind, wind the horn, zany

ROGET THESAURUS

doodle

Musician

VB play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle, strike the lyre, beat the drum, blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn, doodle, grind the organ, touch the guitar, thrum, strum, beat time, execute, perform, accompany, sing a second, play a second, compose, set to music, arrange, sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt, purl, quaver, trill, shake, twitter, whistle, sol-fa, intone, have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear.

Fool

N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.