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Doddle vs Daddle - What's the difference?

doddle | daddle |

As a noun doddle

is a job, task or other activity that is simple or easy to complete.

As a verb daddle is

to walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle.

doddle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A job, task or other activity that is simple or easy to complete.
  • *2002 , The Economist, KarstadtQuelle: Below par
  • *:Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle . It is not.

    • Synonyms

    See also (an activity that is easy) * breeze * cakewalk * cinch * piece of cake * walk in the park * walkover

    See also

    * doodle

    daddle

    English

    Verb

  • (intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
  • *1869 , Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins
  • *:I had to wait an hour at the station for the coming of his train. It was passed pleasantly in reading, ' The Victory Won,' an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle arrived, he and I daddled along a pretty narrow lane.
  • To diddle (cheat)
  • *1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."

    Derived terms

    * diddle-daddle