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A doodle is a mindless sketch, an aimless drawing, while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. ETYMOLOGY 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 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. EXTERNAL LINKS SEE ALSO |
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