"scrawl aimlessly," 1935, from dialectal doodle, dudle "fritter away time, trifle," or associated with dawdle. It was a noun meaning "simple fellow" from 1620s.
LONGFELLOW: That's a name we made up back home for people who make foolish designs on paper when they're thinking. It's called doodling. Almost everybody's a doodler. Did you ever see a scratch pad in a telephone booth? People draw the most idiotic pictures when they're thinking. Dr. Von Holler, here, could probably think up a long name for it, because he doodles all the time. ["Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," screenplay by Robert Riskin, 1936; based on "Opera Hat," serialized in "American Magazine" beginning May 1935, by Clarence Aldington Kelland]
Related: Doodled; Doodling.
Doodle Sack. A bagpipe. Dutch. -- Also the private parts of a woman. ["Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]
中文解释
1. 谐音“涂的”。
实用例句
1. I often doodle when I'm on the phone.
我打电话时常常信手乱画。
来自《权威词典》
2. " Doodle - bug, doodle - bug, tell me what I want to know!
“ 小甲虫, 小甲虫, 告诉我这究竟是怎么回事!
来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
3. We sang these lines to the tune of Yankee Doodle.
我们用扬基歌的曲调唱这几句歌词.
来自辞典例句
4. Actually it is a 3 D rift valley doodle work.
但其实是一幅三维的峡谷涂鸦作品.
来自互联网
5. Shark Encounter'started out as a random doodle in my sketch book.
