"胡亂塗鴉"，1935年，可能來自方言 doodle, dudle "浪費時間，閒逛"，或與 dawdle 相關（這可能是方言詞的來源）。它也是一個名詞，意思是“簡單的傢伙”，始於1620年代。
LONGFELLOW: That's a name we made up back home for people who make foolish designs on paper when they're thinking. It's called doodling. Almost everybody's a doodler. Did you ever see a scratch pad in a telephone booth? People draw the most idiotic pictures when they're thinking. Dr. Von Holler, here, could probably think up a long name for it, because he doodles all the time. ["Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," screenplay by Robert Riskin, 1936; based on "Opera Hat," serialized in American Magazine beginning May 1935, by Clarence Aldington Kelland]
朗費羅：那是我們在家裏爲那些在思考時在紙上製作愚蠢設計的人所創造的名字。它叫做塗鴉。幾乎每個人都是塗鴉者。你曾經在電話亭裏看到過便箋嗎？人們在思考時畫出最愚蠢的圖片。這裏的馮·霍勒博士可能會想出一個長名字，因爲他一直在塗鴉。["迪德先生去城裏"，羅伯特·里斯金（Robert Riskin）編劇，1936年； 基於克拉倫斯·奧爾丁頓·凱蘭德（Clarence Aldington Kelland）於1935年5月開始在《美國雜誌》上連載的“歌劇帽”]
相關： Doodled； Doodling。
Doodle Sack. A bagpipe. Dutch. — Also the private parts of a woman. ["Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]
塗鴉袋。風笛。 Dutch。-也是女人的私處。["俚語詞典，古話"，1796年]
