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A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes. Typical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available. Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns and textures. ==Etymology== The word ''doodle'' first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton.〔"doodle", n, Oxford English Dictionary. Accessed March 23, 2012.〕 It may derive from the German ''Dudeltopf'' or ''Dudeldop'', meaning simpleton or noodle (literally "nightcap").〔 It is 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. The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「doodle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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