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
- 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
- To dodder. […] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.
- 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
- A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.