| 单词 | doodle |
| 释义 | doodle (once / 5013 pages) nv A doodle is a casual little drawing you do, often while you're doing something else, like talking on the phone or listening to a teacher's lecture. Your history notebook might be equal parts notes and doodles. A doodle can vary from a meaningless scribble or scrawl to a detailed picture of a dog. You never draw a doodle for some specific purpose — to doodle is to draw in an aimless, haphazard way. In the 1600s, a doodle was a "simple fellow," from the German dudeltopf, "simpleton." It came to mean "foolish designs on paper" by the early 20th century. WORD FAMILYdoodle: doodled, doodles, doodling USAGE EXAMPLES“Today’s Doodle shows Macintosh enjoying a Scottish rain shower whilst testing his ingenious invention,” Google said in their tribute. Time(Dec 29, 2016) Both Instagram and Snapchat also let you doodle and place text on top of the ephemeral photos and videos you share. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) His doodles, he tells us, often depicted some kind of godlike heroism. The New Yorker(Dec 15, 2016) 1n an aimless drawing Syn|Hyper scrabble, scribble drawing a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines 2v make a doodle; draw aimlessly Hyper draw represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface |
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