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doodle | scrabble |

As verbs the difference between doodle and scrabble

is that doodle is to draw or scribble (something) aimlessly while scrabble is to scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.

As a noun doodle

is a fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.

As a proper noun Scrabble is

a board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.

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

    • scrabble

    English

    Verb

    (scrabbl)
  • To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Thus I lay for a long time, but afterwards stood up and cried aloud, and shrieked if anyone should haply hear me, calling to Mr. Glennie and Ratsey, and even Elzevir, by name, to save me from this awful place. But 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.
  • To move something about 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.
  • To scribble.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 13
    • David scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
  • To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
    • to scrabble paper

    Derived terms

    * hardscrabble * scrabbler

    See also

    * scrap * scrape * scrapple (a sausage-like food)

    Anagrams

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