2. Noun. Something doodled; a careless sketch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doodling
1. doodle [v] - See also: doodle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doodling
Literary usage of Doodling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Dooda, a stupid. Doodle, v. to cheat; to deceive ; to trifle. doodling, part,
cheating. Doole, Dolley, v. to toll a bell. Douse, v. to yield; to give up. ..."
2. The Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685: The Demographic Fate and by Philip Benedict, American Philosophical Society (1991)
"... neatly confound overly simple interpretations of Protestant ethics. Not all
of the marginalia is religious in character. The doodling pen of Jean de ..."
3. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... Yankee-doodling," and " Hail Columbia- ing," all day long. I shall shut myself
up pretty closely on the occasion to save my feelings of nationality, ..."
4. Teaching the Best Practice Way: Methods That Matter, K-12 by Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar (2005)
"There's always room for doodling ideas, cartooning the subject being studied,
making sketches, maps, or diagrams of important concepts. ..."
5. Estudios entomológicos y parasitológicos by John Edwin Bakeless, Francis Peloubet Farquhar, David R. Iriarte, Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"... fell to "doodling." Idly the quill pen slipped over the paper. Julia Hancock
is what he wrote—he was a little clearer about his Judy's name now than he ..."
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