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Doodling vs. Noodling — What's the Difference?

Doodling vs. Noodling — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Doodling and Noodling

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Doodling

To draw or sketch aimlessly, especially when preoccupied.

Noodling

Noodling is fishing for catfish using one's bare hands, and is practiced primarily in the southern United States. The noodler places their hand inside a discovered catfish hole in order to catch the fish.

Doodling

To kill time; dawdle.

Noodling

To improvise music on an instrument in an idle, haphazard fashion.

Doodling

To draw (figures) while preoccupied.
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Noodling

To catch or try to catch a fish, usually a catfish, by hand, characteristically by allowing the fish to bite one's hand or placing one's hand in the fish's mouth, and then grabbing the fish by the mouth or through the gills.

Doodling

A figure or design drawn or written absent-mindedly.

Noodling

(uncountable) The practice and sport of fishing for catfish using the bare hands.

Doodling

Present participle of doodle

Noodling

(countable) Musical improvisation.

Doodling

Something doodled; a careless sketch.

Noodling

Present participle of noodle

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