There's a specific word which is used for drawings (like smilies, cars, cartoons, etc) which we made to pass the time, say while talking with someone or in a lecture. I need to know the exact word for it.
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It's called a doodle.
A rough drawing made absent-mindedly:
the text was interspersed with doodles
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1What about Google Doodles? Just kiddingHanky Panky– Hanky Panky2015-10-07 09:35:08 +00:00Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 9:35
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@njuffa You should send that to OED. Their earliest citation is 1937: R. M. Arundel Everybody's Pixillated p. ix, A ‘doodle’ is a scribbling or sketch made while the conscious mind is concerned with matters wholely unrelated to the scribbling.2015-10-07 14:59:21 +00:00Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 14:59
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1The OED editors seem to be aware of the movie, but presumably they need printed references. The OED2 starts its list of citations for the intransitive verb "doodle" as follows: 1937 Lit. Digest 26 June 19/3 'But everybody doodles.' So Gary Cooper, as Longfellow Deeds, in 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town', defended himself. He wasn't crazy because he drew squares and circles on scraps of paper -- he was just 'doodling'.njuffa– njuffa2015-10-07 15:42:35 +00:00Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 15:42
It's the activity known as doodling.
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7...and the picture itself 'a doodle'Mitch– Mitch2015-10-06 14:59:40 +00:00Commented Oct 6, 2015 at 14:59
Another possibility is scribble. The main difference is that doodles are more likely representational while scribbles are generally abstract, though this is not necessarily true in either case.
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1The main difference is "doodle" is cooler sounding.Pacerier– Pacerier2015-10-08 07:21:44 +00:00Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 7:21