"droodle" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɹuː.dəl/ Forms: droodles [plural]
Rhymes: -uːdəl Etymology: Blend of drawing + doodle; coined by Roger Price, who published a book of them in 1953. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|drawing|doodle}} Blend of drawing + doodle Head templates: {{en-noun}} droodle (plural droodles)
  1. A simple cartoon or doodle, whose contents are given a humorous description; another person is challenged to identify the picture in the manner of a riddle.
    Sense id: en-droodle-en-noun-4QehQIV7 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English blends: 64 36 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 88 12

Verb

IPA: /ˈdɹuː.dəl/ Forms: droodles [present, singular, third-person], droodling [participle, present], droodled [participle, past], droodled [past]
Rhymes: -uːdəl Etymology: Blend of drawing + doodle; coined by Roger Price, who published a book of them in 1953. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|drawing|doodle}} Blend of drawing + doodle Head templates: {{en-verb}} droodle (third-person singular simple present droodles, present participle droodling, simple past and past participle droodled)
  1. To draw a droodle.
    Sense id: en-droodle-en-verb-u9z5zYXE

Inflected forms

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