doodle
意味
- (考えごとなどをしているときの)いたずら書き
- (考えごとなどをしながら)いたずら書きする
- …をいたずら書きする
例文
Do you ever doodle on a piece of paper when you're bored?
退屈しているときに、紙に落書きをしたことがありませんか？
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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".