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Scribbly vs Doodly - What's the difference?

scribbly | doodly |

As adjectives the difference between scribbly and doodly

is that scribbly is like a scribble; roughly scrawled; illegible or messy while doodly is like a doodle; scribbly.

scribbly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Like a scribble; roughly scrawled; illegible or messy.

    • doodly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a doodle; scribbly.
  • * 2007 , Aidan Chambers, This Is All (page 257)
    • I chose a glazed pottery egg, partly because I liked the weight of it — heavy for its size — and because it sat so neatly in my hand, but mainly because I liked the strange doodly pattern drawn on it in greys and washed-out blues