Doddle

Quick meaning: Doddle is a noun meaning (UK, Ireland, Australia, informal) A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, Australia, informal) A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.

More Meanings

1. To dodder.
2. Misspelling of dawdle.
3. A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.

Example Sentences

Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? / Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle.

[…] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.

Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not.

Usually we doddled, stopping to flush quail or dove for dinner, skeet-shooting our beer bottles, and watering the cacti.

Word Forms

• doddles
• doddling
• doddled

Synonyms for doddle

Depending on context, synonyms include breeze, cinch, bagatelle, waltz, cakewalk, doss.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dawdle, doss, dally, doling, dink, doodle.

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