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Doodle vs Fool - What's the difference?

doodle | fool |

As nouns the difference between doodle and fool

is that doodle is (obsolete) a fool, a simpleton, a mindless person while fool is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

As verbs the difference between doodle and fool

is that doodle is to draw or scribble (something) aimlessly while fool is to trick; to make a fool of someone.

doodle

English

(wikipedia doodle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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!
  • A small mindless sketch, etc.
  • Penis.
  • * 1993 , Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam , Wakefield Press (1993), ISBN 9781862543102, page 189:
    • His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery.
  • * 1996 , Jane Bonander, Winter Heart , Pocket Star Books (1996), ISBN 9780671529826, 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 9780758263094, 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 .
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    • Synonyms

    * (fool) see also . * (penis) see also .

    Derived terms

    * doodlebug * Google Doodle * sardoodledom * Yankee Doodle

    See also

    * doddle

    Verb

    (doodl)
  • To draw or scribble (something) aimlessly

    • fool

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
    • You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
    The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
  • * Franklin
    • Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .
  • (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  • (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
  • * Milton
    • Can they think me their fool or jester?
  • * 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
    • I'm a fool for the city.
  • (cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.
    • an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool
  • A particular card in a tarot deck.

    • Synonyms

    * (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshite

    Verb

  • To trick; to make a fool of someone.
  • To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
  • * Dryden
    • Is this a time for fooling ?

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * befool * fool about * fool around * foolhardy * foolish * foolishness * foolometer * fool's errand * fool's gold * fool's paradise * foolproof * more fool you * play the fool * suffer fools gladly * there's no fool like an old fool

    References

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