Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to doodle
Participle: doodled
Gerund: doodling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | doodle |
| you | doodle |
| he;she;it | doodles |
| we | doodle |
| you | doodle |
| they | doodle |
Perfect
| I | have doodled |
| you | have doodled |
| he;she;it | has doodled |
| we | have doodled |
| you | have doodled |
| they | have doodled |
Past
| I | doodled |
| you | doodled |
| he;she;it | doodled |
| we | doodled |
| you | doodled |
| they | doodled |
Pluperfect
| I | had doodled |
| you | had doodled |
| he;she;it | had doodled |
| we | had doodled |
| you | had doodled |
| they | had doodled |
Future
| I | will doodle |
| you | will doodle |
| he;she;it | will doodle |
| we | will doodle |
| you | will doodle |
| they | will doodle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have doodled |
| you | will have doodled |
| he;she;it | will have doodled |
| we | will have doodled |
| you | will have doodled |
| they | will have doodled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | doodle |
| you | doodle |
| he;she;it | doodle |
| we | doodle |
| you | doodle |
| they | doodle |
Perfect
| I | have doodled |
| you | have doodled |
| he;she;it | have doodled |
| we | have doodled |
| you | have doodled |
| they | have doodled |
Imperfect
| I | doodled |
| you | doodled |
| he;she;it | doodled |
| we | doodled |
| you | doodled |
| they | doodled |
Pluperfect
| I | had doodled |
| you | had doodled |
| he;she;it | had doodled |
| we | had doodled |
| you | had doodled |
| they | had doodled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would doodle |
| you | would doodle |
| he;she;it | would doodle |
| we | would doodle |
| you | would doodle |
| they | would doodle |
Perfect
| I | would have doodled |
| you | would have doodled |
| he;she;it | would have doodled |
| we | would have doodled |
| you | would have doodled |
| they | would have doodled |
Imperative
| you | doodle |
| we | Let's doodle |
| you | doodle |
Verbs conjugated like 'doodle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'doodle'
doodie,
moodle,
noodle,
soodle,
coddle,
codle,
coole,
croodle,
daddle,
dadle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Originally dialectal, from Low German dudeldopp (“simpleton”). Influenced by dawdle. Compare also German dudeln (“to play (the bagpipe)”).
2. 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.
3. 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. See: German, old spelling '
dudeln'.
Sample Sentences
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The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.
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The managing director doodled. [1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 32:]
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I've been expecting women's music finally to discover New Wave and technopop, and this album is the evidence that someone has been peaking ^([sic]) at music videos and doodling around with sythesizers. [1984 August 4, Maida Tilchen, “Sex, Politics, and Good Vibes”, in Gay Community News, page 9:]
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I can tell you that he does indeed spend a lot of time on business and social calls, social chats, doodling around on AOL, and skimming the daily paper while those patients are piling up. [2003 February 23, 14tonks, “More doctors charging for e-mail and phone calls”, in sci.med.transcription (Usenet):]
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For quite a long time now (at least the 1990s) people have been doodling with the idea of separating space and time again and perhaps endowing them with some properties currently not assigned to them. [2016 May 19, JanPB, “Quantization of Gravity”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet):]