doodle

Etymology 1

Originally dialectal, from Low German dudeltopf, dudeldopp (“simpleton”). Influenced by dawdle. Compare also German dudeln (“to play (the bagpipe)”). The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. German variants of the etymon include Dudeltopf, Dudentopf, Dudenkopf, Dude and Dödel. American English dude may be a derivation of doodle. The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.

noun

1. (obsolete) A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
   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. 1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W. Lowndes (1797), page 43
   Perceval. Weep on! weep on! thou flouted loon, Weep on! weep on! thou gowky doodle! 1812, "THE TEARS OF SIR VICARY!!!", The Scourge, 2 March 1812, page 231
   Courtier, it was thine to bow — Great Arthur he, and Doodle thou! 1837 November, “Carmen Inaugurale”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 676
2. A small mindless sketch, etc.
3. (slang, sometimes childish) The penis.
   His doodle hung as limp as last month's celery. 1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, Wakefield Press, published 1993, page 189
   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. 1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, Pocket Star Books, published 1996, page 43
   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. 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, Brava Books, published 2011

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.
   The bored student doodled a submarine in his notebook.
2. (Scotland) To drone like a bagpipe.

Etymology 2

Extracted from Labradoodle, itself a blend of labrador and poodle

noun

1. Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.