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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The acorn doddle means the same as a piece of cake, that is, a very easy task. A task that can be easily completed while dawdling seems to cover it too. One problem is that many possible eggcorners seem to be Scots, who might be expected to pronounce doddle in this way, but I’m unable to account for its frequent occurrence in Scots-related print. Scots dictionaries shed no light as they have the conventional definition of ‘dawdle’ while ‘doddle’ can be a small lump of home-made toffee or the male genitals or “a hard pellet of dirt which forms on the tail of a sheep.”
I am no techy but it was a dawdle for me and if you cannot follow my explanation I am sure some of the other more regular and technically …
The installation was a dawdle – took about 20 minutes, and most of that was just me being extra careful.
Making soup is a dawdle in a soupmaker. It even means that I can just leave it to get on with the job while I do something else.
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