different between doodle vs scrabble

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du?.d?l/
• Rhymes: -u?d?l

Etymology 1

Influenced by dawdle, from German dudeln (“to play (the bagpipe)”), from dudel (“a bagpipe”), from Czech or Polish dudy (“a 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". 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.

Noun

doodle (plural doodles)

1. (obsolete) A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
   • 1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W. Lowndes (1797), page 43:

     Mrs. Sneak. Why doodle! jackanapes! harkee, who am I?

     Sneak. Come, don't go to call names: am I? vhy my vife, and I am your master.

   • 1812, "THE TEARS OF SIR VICARY!!!", The Scourge, 2 March 1812, page 231:

     Perceval. Weep on! weep on! thou flouted loon,

     Weep on! weep on! thou gowky doodle!

   • 1837, "Carmen Inaugurale", Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, November 1837, page 676:

     Courtier, it was thine to bow —

     Great Arthur he, and Doodle thou!

2. A small mindless sketch, etc.
3. (slang, sometimes childish) Penis.
   • 1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, Wakefield Press (1993), ?ISBN, page 189:

     His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.

   • 1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, Pocket Star Books (1996), ?ISBN, page 43:

     Her favorite had been when she'd convinced the lascivious guards that Dinah's red hair meant she was a witch, and if they molested her, their doodles would shrivel up between their legs and fall off. Daisy had assured her that no man would risk losing his doodle.

   • 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, Brava Books (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     All of Dwight's parts wandered, especially his doodle. He had the wandering-est doodle in three states. His doodle had its own set of legs. His doodle was hardly at home. Heck, according to rumor Dwight Farris's doodle was hardly ever in his pants.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:doodle.

Synonyms

• (fool): see also Thesaurus:fool.
• (penis): see also Thesaurus:penis.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• doddle
• fadoodle
• flapdoodle

Verb

doodle (third-person singular simple present doodles, present participle doodling, simple past and past participle doodled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.

   The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.

2. (Scotland) To drone like a bagpipe.

Translations

Etymology 2

Extracted from Labradoodle, itself a blend of labrador and poodle

Noun

doodle (plural doodles)

1. Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.

Spanish

Noun

doodle m (plural doodles)

1. doodle

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben (“to scrape”), equivalent to scrab +? -le. More at scrape.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?æb?l/
• Rhymes: -æb?l

Verb

scrabble (third-person singular simple present scrabbles, present participle scrabbling, simple past and past participle scrabbled)

1. (intransitive) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     […] there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.
2. (transitive) To gather hastily.
3. (intransitive) To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.

   She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.

4. (intransitive) To scribble.

   • David […] scrabbled on the doors of the gate.

5. (transitive) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.

   to scrabble paper

Derived terms

• hardscrabble
• scrabbler

Translations

See also

• scrab
• scramble
• scrap
• scrape
• scrapple (a sausage-like food)

Noun

scrabble (plural scrabbles)

1. A scramble.

   a scrabble for dear life

Anagrams

• cabblers, clabbers, crabbles

French

Noun

scrabble m (plural scrabbles)

1. (Scrabble) a play where all seven tiles are used; a bingo

Verb

scrabble

1. first-person singular present indicative of scrabbler
2. third-person singular present indicative of scrabbler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of scrabbler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of scrabbler
5. second-person singular imperative of scrabbler

Further reading

• “scrabble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).