doddle

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doddle¹

  • /ˈdɒdl̩/ UK
  • /ˈdɑd(ə)l/ US

Sounds like dawdle (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒdəl

Where it comes from

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

noun doddles · dawdle

  1. Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, 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.

verb doddles · doddling · doddled

  1. To dodder. […] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.
  2. misspelling Misspelling of dawdle.dawdle Usually we doddled, stopping to flush quail or dove for dinner, skeet-shooting our beer bottles, and watering the cacti.

doddle²

  • /ˈdɒdl̩/ UK
  • /ˈdɑd(ə)l/ US

Sounds like dawdle (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒdəl

noun doddles

  1. A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.

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