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doddle
UK /ˈdɒdl̩/ US /ˈdɑd(ə)l/
noun 2verb 2
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1VERB + DODDLE
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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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Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? / Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle.
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Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not.
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He was a QC from Edinburgh, wearing the black jacket and pinstripe trousers of his trade, as if straight from court, and probably persuaded to come in the belief that if you could interest the Budhill
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[…] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.
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Usually we doddled, stopping to flush quail or dove for dinner, skeet-shooting our beer bottles, and watering the cacti.
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With your ability it should be a doddle, but please don't get too big for your boots: apply yourself diligently like everyone in your class.
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