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doodley en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of doodly.
   alt of doodly
   • Thanks to Brenda Gardner, Yasemin Uçar, Jon Appleton and all the fab team at Piccadilly. To Sue Hellard for her fab doodley drawings. 2005, Cathy Hopkins, Mates, Dates Guide to Life (Mates, Dates; 15), London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN:
   • Make lots of little doodley drawings that give you an idea for the next little doodley thing, and soon enough you will have one little thumbnail-sized squiggley idea that your eye keeps coming back to. 2010, Matthew Levesque, “Using Thumbnails for Design Ideas”, in The Revolutionary Yardscape: Ideas for Repurposing Local Materials to Create Containers, Pathways, Lighting, and More, Portland, Ore.; London: Timber Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Walk on This), page 69, column 2:
   • Nice doodley drawings. 1971 November 14, Juliet Clough, “Little things”, in Sunday Telegraph, number 560, London: Telegraph Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Children’s Books” section, page 22:
   • There’s four songs by Chicken. Chicken reminds me of? Well, he’s a drummer and that’s groovy and he has this room full of paintings he made that are his version of Rousseau, all magical jungles and doodley patterns. 1968 May 30, Sandy Darlington, “Country Joe and the Fish: An Electric Newspaper”, in Marvin Garson, Robert Novick, editors, San Francisco Express Times, volume 1, number 19, San Francisco, Calif.: The Trystero Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:
   • [Eduardo] Paolozzi’s work is more closely aligned with the art brut style of Jean Dubuffet’s doodley drawings and scabrous-surfaced paintings and sculpture, or with Pablo Picasso’s sculptures that were constituted from common objects. 1984, Gerard Silk, “Cultural Reconstruction, Explosion, and Reflection”, in Automobile and Culture, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Los Angeles, Calif.: The Museum of Contemporary Art, →ISBN, “The Automobile in Art” section, page 123:

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