Adding to this, a 2011 article from Science demonstrated that, when drawing/utilising visuals instead of strictly using words, people obtained a better understanding of a particular concept and were also better able to communicate it. According to a 2009 study conducted by Plymouth University, participants who doodled during an experiment retained an average of 29% more information than non-doodlers. What allowed for the meaning to move from defining a person to defining artistic scribbling was the widely-held belief that these little drawings were nothing more than aimless time wasting or procrastination, which were considered to be the actions of a fool.Ĭontrary to belief about doodles, there may be more to them than previously thought. Originating from the Low German Dudeltopf, the initial meaning of the word was for a fool or a simpleton, such as in the well-known song, Yankee Doodle, sung by British loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. Though we may associate it most with drawings on paper, and Google Doodles, our word initially had quite a different meaning. Before heaping praise of doodlers and revolutionising meetings forever, let us turn our attention to the word doodle itself.
However, current science could be turning this belief on its head.
To many, this act is seen as nothing more than a time waster to fight boredom, like playing Angry Birds during a meeting. Influenced by dawdle, from German dudeln (“to play (the bagpipe)”), from dudel (“a bagpipe”), from Czech or Polish dudy (“a bagpipe”), from Turkish düdük (“a flute”).On the surface, it looks like you are wasting time and not paying attention – you have been caught doodling. American English dude may be a derivation of doodle. German variants of the etymon include Dudeltopf, Dudentopf, Dudenkopf, Dude and Dödel.
The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. 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.
This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War.
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