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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Noun

(studies)

(label) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.

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*:wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I my?te preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in a study and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghte

(label) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Just men they seemed, and all their study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.

Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.

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*1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

*:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study ; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

*1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations

*:Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost

, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}

The act of studying; examination.

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Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.

*(William Law) (1686-1761)

*:The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study .

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:The proper study of mankind is man.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:

(senseid)A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.

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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

*:his cheery little study

An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.

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(label) A piece for special practice; an .