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. It is the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning “to swindle or to make a fool of”. It may derive from the German Dudeltopf or Dudeldop, meaning simpleton or noodle (literally “nightcap”). ![]() The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available. Typical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Despite this, it is not uncommon to see such behaviour with adults, in which case it is generally done jovially, out of boredom. ![]() Popular Doodle types include cartoonists or schoolmates, famous movie or TV stars, comic book characters, invented fictional beings, imaginary beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, and patterns, textures, phallic scenes, or animations by drawing a sequence of scenes in different pages of a book or a notebook.ĭoodling and scribbling are most often associated with young children and toddlers, because their lack of hand–eye coordination and lower mental development often make it very difficult for any young child to keep their coloring attempts within the line art of the subject. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be composed of random and abstract lines, generally without ever lifting the drawing device from the paper, in which case it is usually called a “scribble”. A doodle is a drawing made while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied.
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