doddle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɒdl̩/    美 /ˈdɑd(ə)l/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple. Australia,Ireland,UK,informal
    — Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? / Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle.
  2. A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.
动词 v.
  1. To dodder.
    — […] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.
  2. Misspelling of dawdle. alt-of,misspelling
    — Usually we doddled, stopping to flush quail or dove for dinner, skeet-shooting our beer bottles, and watering the cacti.

词形变化

doddles plural dawdle alternative doddles present,singular,third-person doddling participle,present doddled participle,past doddled past doddles plural

词源

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