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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | draw casually |
| Synonyms: | draw, fiddle, putter, scribble, tinker, trifle |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artful conception |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, configuration, construction, depiction, device, doodle, drawing, figure, form, illustration, motif, motive, organization, painting, pattern, picture, portrait, shape, sketch, style |
| Main Entry: | drawing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illustration |
| Synonyms: | cartoon, commercial art, comp, delineation, depiction, design, doodle, etching, graphics, layout, likeness, outline, painting, picture, portrayal, representation, sketch, storyboard, study, tracing, work of art |
| Main Entry: | fiddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mess with, tinker |
| Synonyms: | dabble, doodle, feel, fidget, finger, fool, handle, interfere, mess, mess around, monkey*, play, potter, puddle, putter, tamper, touch, toy, trifle, twiddle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | goof off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid work |
| Synonyms: | bum around, coast, diddle, dog it, doodle, drag one's feet, featherbed, fiddle around, fluff off, fool around, hang around, hang out, horse around, lollygag, mess around, monkey around, putz around, screw off, shirk, slack, take it easy |
| Main Entry: | mess around |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fiddle; goof off |
| Synonyms: | amuse oneself, dabble, dawdle, doodle, fool around, loiter, muck around, play, play around, play the fool, potter, puddle, putter, tinker, trifle |
| Antonyms: | labor, toil, work |
| Main Entry: | picture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illustration, likeness of something |
| Synonyms: | account, art, blueprint, canvas, cartoon, copy, delineation, depiction, description, doodle, double, draft, drawing, duplicate, effigy, engraving, figure, icon, image, impression, lookalike, outline, painting, panorama, photo, photograph, piece, portrait, portrayal, presentment, print, re-creation, replica, report, representation, ringer, similitude, simulacrum, sketch, spectacle, spitting image, statue, tableau, twin |
| Main Entry: | putter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dawdle |
| Synonyms: | doodle, fiddle, fritter, goof around, loiter, mess, mess around, niggle, poke*, potter, puddle, shuffle around, tinker |
| Antonyms: | execute |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scrawl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | write erratically |
| Synonyms: | doodle, inscribe, scrabble, scratch, scribble, squiggle |
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