Various doodles

A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Look up doodle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 385 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,002 × 1,560 pixels, file size: 808 KB, MIME type: image/png) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 385 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,002 × 1,560 pixels, file size: 808 KB, MIME type: image/png) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... For scale drawings or plans, see Plans (drawings). ...

Etymology

The word doodle first appeared in the early seventeenth century to mean a fool or simpleton, and is thought to derive from the Low German dudeltopf, meaning "fool" or "simpleton". This is the meaning meant in the song "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Low German (also called Niederdeutsch, Plattdeutsch or Plattdüütsch) is a name for the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in Northern Germany where it is officially called Niederdeutsch (Low German), and in Eastern Netherlands where it is officially called Nedersaksisch (Low Saxon). Low refers to... Yankee Doodle is a well-known US song, often sung patriotically today. ... This article is about military actions only. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known as the World Depression. ...

In the movie "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" Mr. Deeds mentions that "doodle" was a word made up to describe scribblings to help a person think. Mr. ...

Famous Doodlers

In published compilations of their materials, numerous historical figures have left behind doodles. Erasmus drew comical faces in the margins of his manuscripts and John Keats drew flowers in his medical note-books during lectures. Ralph Waldo Emerson, as a student at Harvard, decorated his composition books with somber, classical doodles, such as ornamental scrolls. In one place, he sketched a man whose feet have been bitten off by a great fish swimming nearby and added the caption, “My feet are gone. I am a fish. Yes, I am a fish!” Erasmus redirects here. ... Keats grave in Rome (left). ... Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...

One famous doodler is Sergio Aragonés, who has doodled cartoons in the margins of over 400 issues of MAD Magazine. Sergio self-portrait from Groo the Wanderer comic Issue #84 Sergio Aragonés Domenech (born 1937) is a cartoonist and writer probably best-known for his contributions to Mad Magazine. ... Harvey Kurtzmans cover for the first issue of the comic book Mad Mad is an American humor magazine founded by publisher William Gaines and editor Harvey Kurtzman in 1952. ...

See also

• Marginalia
• Graphology
• Alien hand syndrome
• Automatic writing
• Split-brain
• Stream of consciousness writing
• Scribble
• Oekaki
• Yankee Doodle

Marginalia is the general term for notes, scribbles, doodles and editorial comments made in the margin of a book. ... Graphology is the study and analysis of handwriting especially in relation to human psychology. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For the article about the album by Ataxia, see Automatic Writing (album). ... Split-brain is the condition where the corpus callosum connecting the two halves of the brain is severed to some degree. ... In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a literary technique that seeks to portray an individuals point of view by giving the written equivalent of the characters thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her sensory reactions to external occurrences. ... A scribble is a drawing composed of random and abstract lines, generally without ever lifting the drawing device off of the paper. ... PBBS redirects here. ... Yankee Doodle is a well-known US song, often sung patriotically today. ...

External links

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• Doodle Is Art World Project
• Doodles made by Presidents of the United States
• CBBC children's doodle games
• UK-based charity fundraising event where celebrities' doodles are auctioned