落書き
解説 Definition
doodling は doodle（何気なく落書きする）の現在分詞・動名詞で、名詞としては落書きすること、またはその落書きを指します。授業中や会議中などに、深く考えず紙の端に絵や模様を描くような行為に使われます。芸術作品というより、気軽で無意識的な描き込みです。
Doodling is the activity of drawing simple shapes, lines, or pictures casually, often while thinking, listening, or doing something else. It can also refer collectively to the informal marks or sketches produced in this way.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
doodling は doodle「何気なく落書きする」に -ing を付けた形で、語末 e を落として doodling となり、発音は /ˈduːdlɪŋ/。名詞では「落書きすること」やその気軽な描き込みを表します。doodling in the margin や doodling during a meeting の場面を思い浮かべ、計画的な drawing や公共物への graffiti と区別します。
Doodling is formed from doodle by dropping the final e and adding -ing. Picture someone listening in a long meeting while filling the edge of a notebook with loops, faces, or repeated patterns. That casual, partly unconscious activity is doodling, and the word can also refer to the marks produced. Learn it with phrases such as doodling in the margin or doodling during class. Unlike drawing, it usually lacks a planned artistic goal; unlike graffiti, it normally happens privately on paper and does not imply writing or painting on public property.
例文
Doodling helped him stay calm during the long meeting.
長い会議の間、落書きをすることで彼は落ち着いていられました。
She filled the corner of her notebook with doodling.
彼女はノートの隅を落書きでいっぱいにしました。
The teacher noticed his doodling but did not interrupt the class.
先生は彼の落書きに気づきましたが、授業を止めませんでした。
doodling の類義語・関連語
doodling の語源・成り立ち Etymology
doodling は doodle「ぼんやり線を描く」に -ing が付いた形で、doodle は方言の doodle／dudle「だらだら過ごす」にさかのぼるとされます。「手すさびに時間をつぶす」感覚から、考え事中の落書きという意味になり、dawdle も近い仲間です。
Doodling is the -ing form of doodle. The precise earlier history of doodle is not completely certain, but the drawing sense appears to have developed from dialectal uses associated with idling, dawdling, or passing time. This fits the modern idea of making unplanned marks while attention is partly elsewhere. The suffix -ing turns the verb into a participle or a noun naming the activity. Dawdle is similar in sound and meaning history, though it now chiefly means moving or acting slowly.
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