moodle
See also: MOODLE
English
Etymology
Unknown
Verb
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- To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.
Quotations
- (1921) "That old one who saw you out of your shell has gone off to moodle about doing nothing." Back to Methuselah v. 223 [1]
- (1928) "Napoleon often moodled about for a week at a time doing nothing but play with his children or read trash or waste his time helplessly." Intelligent Woman’s Guide Socialism lxix. 328 [2]
- (1938) "So you see, imagination needs moodling, -long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering." If you want to write - Brenda Ueland [3] [4]