I don't have the hands to do a bunch of dipsy-doodle stuff. On David Remnick, Jack Cashill, and the authorship of “Dreams From My Father” Much more clever than the Hillary dipsy-doodle, where a supporter buys both ends of an option or commodity contract, gives you the one in the money, and eats the other one.

Laura Penny: The Cheapness That Is Not: Thoughts on the BP Spill Lara Maynard, Torbay, 2008.So now that you know what it is, why doodle-daddle? I've chosen the word as the blog title in part because of its wonderful, poetic alliterative quality, in part because it is one of those old Newfoundland expresions that in themselves are worthy of conservation as pieces of our intangible cultural heritage, in part because it is the type of word that generates discussion, stories and smiles, and in part because it is a word about words, which links the things that we create with the culture that creates, shares and transmits the ideas about those things.The economic costs of this way of thinking are becoming more and more obvious, with each stock market dipsy-doodle, with each new set of unemployment numbers, in the growing gulf between the rich and the poor. If my father had something in his hand like a big bolt that I didn’t recognize, and I asked him what it was, and he didn’t care to go into it, he’d say, “This is a doodle-daddle-fer-stirrin’-doughb’ys.” I understood that what he meant is the same as “thingie,” but I must have been 20 before I separated the words out in my head and understood the word “stirrin’” as “stirring” and started to get an image of a utensil stirring dumplings - a doodle-daddle for stirring dougboys. When I was a kid the way I first heard the idea of “thing-a-ma-jig” was “doodle-daddle for stirrin’ doughb’ys.” It was always like that, the whole phrase, and it came out together like one long word. quoted from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English Online P 30-79 My mother used to tease me by saying that a doodle laddle was a machine for catching wild ducks. P 245-77 Do you know what we call that drain pipe? We call it the oodle-addle. C 71-94 When a man was making something and some curious boy asked him what he was making the man always told him that he was making an oodle-addle. A contraption esp a deliberately humorous or evasive name given to an object in order to puzzle a child. Loodle-laddle (n) also doodle-laddle, oodle-addle.

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