doddle
a very easy task
TRANSLATION
der leichte Zugang, leichte Beute sein, der leichte Zugriff, die leichte Aufgabe
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IN THE PRESS
“WinDrivers.com is an online database of manufacturers and products, which makes finding the needed files a doddle.”
(Network News, 1.10.2001)
(Network News, 1.10.2001)
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A doddle is something easy or requiring very little effort.
The origin of this word is unknown. It may come from the verb doddle, meaning "to totter or walk with short, unsteady steps."
Doddle used as a noun appeared recently in a news story about Sir Ranulph Fiennes, a 56-year-old British explorer who plans to set out this Feb. 14 in hopes of being the first person ever to trek alone to the North Pole. Fiennes made a similar crossing of the Antarctic in 1993, but this journey will involve additional dangers, such as polar bears, which prompted a friend of Fiennes to observe: "The Antarctic is a doddle compared with the Arctic."
A doddle is something easy or requiring very little effort.
The origin of this word is unknown. It may come from the verb doddle, meaning "to totter or walk with short, unsteady steps."
Doddle used as a noun appeared recently in a news story about Sir Ranulph Fiennes, a 56-year-old British explorer who plans to set out this Feb. 14 in hopes of being the first person ever to trek alone to the North Pole. Fiennes made a similar crossing of the Antarctic in 1993, but this journey will involve additional dangers, such as polar bears, which prompted a friend of Fiennes to observe: "The Antarctic is a doddle compared with the Arctic."
