doodle

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈduːdl̩/
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• General-American: /ˈdud(ə)l/
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• rhymes with -uːdəl
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• CMU ARPABET: D UW1 D AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

Extracted from Labradoodle, itself a blend of labrador and poodle

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: глупак (glupak) — a fool, simpleton
• Czech: ňouma — a fool, simpleton
• Czech: truhlík — a fool, simpleton
• Czech: nekňuba — a fool, simpleton
• Finnish: tollo — a fool, simpleton
• German: Dummkopf — a fool, simpleton
• German: Einfaltspinsel — a fool, simpleton
• Hungarian: tökfej — a fool, simpleton
• Italian: cazzone — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: болва́н (bolván) — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: проста́к (prosták) — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: простофи́ля (prostofílja) — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: о́лух (ólux) — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: дереве́нщина (derevénščina) — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: лоботря́с (lobotrjás) — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: тупи́ца (tupíca) — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: дура́к (durák) — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: ду́рень (dúrenʹ) — a fool, simpleton
• Russian: глупе́ц (glupéc) — a fool, simpleton
• Arabic: شخبط (šaḵbaṭ) — small mindless sketch
• Armenian: խզբզոց (xzbzocʻ) — small mindless sketch
• Bulgarian: драскулка (draskulka) — small mindless sketch
• Catalan: gargot — small mindless sketch
• Chinese Mandarin: 塗鴉 /涂鸦 (túyā) — small mindless sketch
• Czech: čmáranice — small mindless sketch
• Esperanto: desegnaĉo — small mindless sketch
• Esperanto: liberdesegno — small mindless sketch
• Finnish: riipustus — small mindless sketch
• French: griffonnage — small mindless sketch
• French: gribouillis — small mindless sketch
• German: Gekritzel — small mindless sketch
• German: Kritzelei — small mindless sketch
• Hungarian: firka — small mindless sketch
• Italian: scarabocchio — small mindless sketch
• Italian: scarabocchi — small mindless sketch
• Italian: girigogolo — small mindless sketch
• Japanese: 落書き (rakugaki) — small mindless sketch
• Kazakh: шимай (şimai) — small mindless sketch
• Kazakh: шатпақ (şatpaq) — small mindless sketch
• Norwegian Bokmål: krusedull — small mindless sketch
• Polish: gryzmoły — small mindless sketch
• Polish: bazgroły — small mindless sketch
• Portuguese: rabisco — small mindless sketch
• Portuguese: garatuja — small mindless sketch
• Russian: кара́кули (karákuli) — small mindless sketch
• Russian: закорю́чка (zakorjúčka) — small mindless sketch
• Russian: ду́длинг (dúdling) — small mindless sketch
• Spanish: garabato — small mindless sketch
• Spanish: garrapato — small mindless sketch
• Spanish: monigote — small mindless sketch
• Spanish: garabateo — small mindless sketch
• Tagalog: guri — small mindless sketch
• Turkish: karalama — small mindless sketch
• Waray-Waray: gu-ding — small mindless sketch
• Czech: lulan — penis
• Czech: pinďour — penis
• Czech: pindík — penis
• Finnish: pippeli — penis
• French: zizi — penis
• German: Penis — penis
• German: Schwanz — penis
• Hungarian: fütyülő — penis
• Italian: pene — penis
• Polish: siusiak — penis
• Russian: писю́н (pisjún) — penis
• Russian: пи́ська (písʹka) — penis
• Russian: пипи́ська (pipísʹka) — penis
• Turkish: penis — penis
• Turkish: sik — penis
• Armenian: խզբզել (xzbzel) — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Bulgarian: драскам си (draskam si) — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Finnish: riipustella — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Finnish: piirrellä — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• French: griffonner — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• French: gribouiller — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• German: kritzeln — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Hungarian: firkál — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Italian: scarabocchiare — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Japanese: 落書き — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Kazakh: шимайлау (şimailau) — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Lithuanian: paišalioti — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Norwegian Bokmål: drodle — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Norwegian Bokmål: tegne kruseduller — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Polish: bazgrać — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Polish: gryzmolić — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Polish: nagryzmolić — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Portuguese: rabiscar — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Portuguese: garatujar — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Russian: чиркать (čirkatʹ) — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Slovene: čečkati — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Spanish: garabatear — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Swedish: klottra — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Tagalog: gumuri — to draw or scribble aimlessly
• Tagalog: magguri — to draw or scribble aimlessly