Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈdɒdl̩/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈdɑd(ə)l/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
Usage- Australia
- Ireland
- New-Zealand
- UK usage
- Informal
- Examples
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Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle.
[Dr Bullard]'s on his hols. I'm standing in. Anyway, this one's a doddle. Death by strangulation, about five or six days ago at a guess.
More examples (2)
Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not.
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 and Springboig party in the repressive Gaullist policies in Algeria then becoming Solicitor-General was a dawdle.
Verb
To dodder.
- Examples
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[…] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.
Noun
A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.
- Related words
Noun
an easy task