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doddle

noun
/ˈdɒdl̩/UK/ˈdɑd(ə)l/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from doddle — “to toddle; sway; nod drowsily”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not.

  2. To dodder.

    • […] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.

  3. Misspelling of dawdle.

    • Usually we doddled, stopping to flush quail or dove for dinner, skeet-shooting our beer bottles, and watering the cacti.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A hornless animal

      A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA