doodle

詳細解釋：

doo.dle

v.（動詞）
doo.dled,doo.dling,doo.dles
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To scribble aimlessly, especially when preoccupied.
胡亂畫，塗鴉：尤指在精神集中在其它事情時，心不在焉地亂塗
To kill time.
打發時間
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To draw (figures) while preoccupied.
塗鴉：當精神集中於它處時畫（像）
n.（名詞）
A figure, design, or scribble drawn or written absent-mindedly.
塗鴉：漫不經心地畫或塗像等

來源：
English dialectal [to fritter away time]
英文方言 [浪費時間]
perhaps from doodle [fool] * see doodlebug
可能源自 doodle [傻瓜] *參見 doodlebug

<注釋>One might wonder what, if any, connection exists amongYankee Doodle, a doodlebug, and the doodle that one draws when one is bored or abstracted. The worddoodle in the latter two uses may come from a Low German word meaning .fool...Fool,. the first (and now probably obsolete) sense of the worddoodle to be recorded in English ('28),would seem naturally to have been used inYankee Doodle, the name of a tune composed in 755 to mock the American colonists. However, the origin ofDoodle in this expression is unknown; it may be fromtootle, because the piece was apparently composed originally for flute or fife.In the case ofdoodlebug, it is thought that doodle, meaning .simpleton,. is the first part of the insect name.The sense .absent-minded scrawl. may come directly from the sense .fool.or from a British dialectal verb, meaning .to cheat, fritter time away,.that was derived from the noun sense .fool..
人們也許會問YonkeeDoodle， doodlebug， 和意思為心不在焉地亂塗的 doodle 之間有無聯繫。 單詞doodle 在後兩種用法中大概來自低地德文中， 意思為.傻瓜.的一個單詞。.傻瓜.，doodle 的第一含義（現在可能已不再用）， 英文記載是在'28年，被用在755年譜成的用來諷刺美國殖民者的曲子YankeeDoodle 中。 然而，在該表達中Doodle 的詞源尚不清楚； 也許來自tootle， 因為該曲原本很明顯是用笛子或橫笛演奏的。在doodlebug 中， doodle 被認為意思為.傻瓜.， 是昆蟲名的第一部分。.心不在焉地亂塗.可能直接來自.傻瓜.，或者來自英國方言動詞，意為.欺騙，打發時間.的，這個動詞來源於名詞.傻瓜.