Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

doddle

/ˈdɑd(ə)l/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.00 in modern English

Syllables: dod-dle
IPA: /ˈdɑd(ə)l/

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Informal

verb

verb

Misspelling of dawdle.

noun

A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.

Example Sentences

"Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle."
"[Dr Bullard]'s on his hols. I'm standing in. Anyway, this one's a doddle. Death by strangulation, about five or six days ago at a guess."
"Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not."
"He was a QC from Edinburgh, wearing the black jacket and pinstripe trousers of his trade, as if straight from court, and probably persuaded to come in the belief that if you could interest the Budhill and Springboig party in the repressive Gaullist policies in Algeria then becoming Solicitor-General was a dawdle."
"[…] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian."
"Usually we doddled, stopping to flush quail or dove for dinner, skeet-shooting our beer bottles, and watering the cacti."

Etymology

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

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈdɑd(ə)l/
British English: /ˈdɒdl̩/

Usage

Inflected Forms

doddles (plural) dawdle (alternative) doddles (present, singular) doddling (participle, present) doddled (participle, past) doddled (past)

Frequently Paired Words

doodle

Synonyms

bagatelle waltz breeze cake and gingerbread cakewalk child's play cinch doddle doss duck soup easy pickings gimme

Homonyms

dawdle (cot–caught merger)

Rhymes With

model waddle coddle swaddle dawdle toddle hodl mollycoddle broddle

Questions

How do you pronounce doddle?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɑd(ə)l/.
What does doddle mean?: A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
Where does doddle come from?: Uncertain. Possibly from dialectal English doddle (“to toddle, to sway, to nod drowsily”).

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