To be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, yet in a slower, more orotund fashion. Lord, what a sarcophagus I am, what a zany, what a gaby, what a doodle, what a dizzard, what a hoddy-doddy, what a tom-noddy, what a dunderpate, what a jobber-nowl, what a gowk! Jigsaws, cards, roulette counters, poker chips, spillikins, marbles, yarrow stalks, dice, jacks, Trivial Pursuit wedges, bridge score-sheets, discarded Pictionary doodles, Scrabble tiles, bits of unidentifiable plastic and shards of bakelite, wood and metal formed a jumbled compost capable of engaging a dedicated housekeeper for several months of full-time sifting, cataloguing and sorting into the correct boxes. He flipped over to another screen and was doodling equations when the door opened and Tchar and the ardass entered. Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns and textures. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available. Typical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Despite this, it is not uncommon to see such behaviour with adults, in which case it generally is done jovially, out of boredom. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be composed of random and abstract lines, generally without ever lifting the drawing device off of the paper, in which case it is usually called a "scribble".ĭoodling and scribbling are most often associated with young children and toddlers, because their lack of hand–eye coordination and lower mental development often make it very difficult for any young child to keep their coloring attempts within the line art of the subject. A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied.
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