doodle

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.
2. (intransitive) To engage in something non-seriously; fiddle.
3. (Scotland) To drone like a bagpipe.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
2. A small mindless sketch, etc.
3. (childish, slang, sometimes) The penis.

Noun

Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.

Concetti

scarabocchiare

pene

girigogolo

scarabocchio

sgorbiare

scarabocchi

sinonimi

scribble

scrabble

scrawl

jot

jot down

pen

🖊️

blockhead

scribbling

squiggle

scratch

cacography

dolt

Traduzioni

gribouiller

kritzeln

griffonner

gribouillis

garabatear

karalama

Gekritzel

griffonnage

garrapatear

borrajear

garabato

σχεδιάζω αφηρημένα

γράφω αφηρημένα

Penis

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈduːdl̩/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine tedesco: dudeln

In summary

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.