doddle

UK /ˈdɒdl̩/ US /ˈdɑd(ə)l/
noun 2verb 2

Definitions

noun

1

A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.

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

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

verb

1

To dodder.

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

2

Misspelling of dawdle.

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

noun

1

A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.

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