0 present participle of doodle
1 to draw pictures or patterns while thinking about something else or when you are bored:
She'd doodled all over her textbooks.
This doodling often generates ideas and themes for her pieces.
One pupil described the experimentation stage as 'musical doodling'.
This 'experimentation' and 'doodling' focus occasionally ran into problems.
The word "doodling" would get ink on every letter except the "lin" group, wouldn't it?
Consider the mindless doodling that involves filling in all the closed loops on a printed page with your pen.
Then he could enjoy five days of comparative leisure, doodling in the studio, reading, riding, rowing, and spending the evenings with male friends.
The doodling seemed to fit.
This was helped by our process of meeting and doodling, followed by one or other of us drawing something up for the other to comment on or develop further.