doddle

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Possibly from dialectal English doddle (“to toddle; sway; nod drowsily”).

noun

1. (Britain, informal) A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
   Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? / Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle. 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian
   Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not. Sep 14, 2002, “KarstadtQuelle: Below par”, in The Economist
   He was a QC from Edinburgh, wearing the black jacket and pinstripe trousers of his trade, as if straight from court, and probably persuaded to come in the belief that if you could interest the Budhill and Springboig party in the repressive Gaullist policies in Algeria then becoming Solicitor-General was a dawdle. 2009, Archie Macpherson, “Thumping the Tub”, in A Game of Two Halves: The Autobiography, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, page 63

verb

1. To dodder.
   […] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian. 1874, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, My Time, and what I've Done with it: An Autobiography, page 369
2. Misspelling of dawdle.
   Usually we doddled, stopping to flush quail or dove for dinner, skeet-shooting our beer bottles, and watering the cacti. 2004, Katie Lee, Sandstone Seduction: Rivers and Lovers, Canyons and Friends

Etymology 2

noun

1. A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.