Doodle by Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia, c. 1795. A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied.Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.Typical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class.his is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning to swindle or to make a fool of. The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb to dawdle, which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.