Doodling

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something doodled; a careless sketch.

    "So the persistent researcher may still track down at least a few of Wilde’s own annotations and doodlings and wine stains and broken spines, parsing them for whatever they may reveal."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of doodle form-of, gerund, participle, present

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scribbleboycockboydickdickding dongding-a-ling

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"Instead of taking notes, I spent the whole class doodling."

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