In the 17th century, a doodle was a simpleton or a fool as in Yankee Doodle.

E Cock a doodle doo!

That is why millions of people doodle.

Here's another interesting truth about the doodle People who doodle when they're exposed to verbal information retain more of that information than their non doodling counterparts.

Now it turned out to be Bill Gates' doodle.

My friends, the doodle has never been the nemesis of intellectual thought.

For example, there's no such thing as a flattering definition of a doodle.

The incredible contribution of the doodle is that it engages all four learning modalities simultaneously with the possibility of an emotional experience.

And finally, a lot a people aren't privy to this, but the doodle is a precursor to some of our greatest cultural assets.

And today, we have what is perhaps our most offensive definition, at least to me, which is the following To doodle officially means to dawdle, to dilly dally, to monkey around, to make meaningless marks, to do something of little value, substance or import, and my personal favorite to do nothing.