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Doodle vs Ribbit - What's the difference?

doodle | ribbit |

As nouns the difference between doodle and ribbit

is that doodle is (obsolete) a fool, a simpleton, a mindless person while ribbit is the sound made by a frog or toad.

As verbs the difference between doodle and ribbit

is that doodle is to draw or scribble (something) aimlessly while ribbit is to make the sound of a frog or toad.

As an interjection ribbit is

(onomatopoeia) the sound made by a frog or toad.

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

    • ribbit

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (onomatopoeia) The sound made by a frog or toad.
    • The students fell momentarily silent while he finished writing on the board. Then, "Ribbit !"

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound made by a frog or toad.

    • Verb

  • To make the sound of a frog or toad.

    • References

    * Songs of the Frog