Green’s Dictionary of Slang

doodle n.2

[20C+ use of all senses is mainly US]

1. the penis, esp. a child’s penis [Caulfield Blackguardiana (1793) suggests ‘childish appellation for a cock’ thus a pun; ? shape of penis + testes offers link to Ger. dudelsack, a bagpipe].

[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Crim.-Con. Gaz. 5 Jan. 1/1: thinks i to myself thinks i She did not like Yankee Doodles!
[UK]Fast Man 11:1 n.p.: Suppose the lady of colour who nocturnally does the peripatetic on the tesselated pavement of the Haymarket, were to take a cabman into the Country Court for calling her a sable-doodle-dealing-smutty-faced shivering old shickster, would it be libellous.
[UK] ‘Yarhoo Doodle’ in Rakish Rhymer (1917) 61: A snake took it into his head / To bite off his skinny doodle.
[UK]‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) I 49: She put her hand outside my trowsers, gave my doodle a gentle pinch, and kissed me.
[UK]Crissie 14: ‘A kiss! Perish me pink, you little cow, if I don’t reckon an inch or two o’ doodle would be more in your line!’.
[UK]A. Crowley Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 21: I was hardly laid in my father’s arms before his doodle was between my baby legs and jerking its creamy essence into the sunny air of Rome.
[US]‘Peachtree’ Payne ‘Peach Tree Blues’ 🎵 You oughta steal my peaches slip in my doodla at night.
[US](con. 1890s) in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 675: You skin your doodle / And I’ll skin mine.
[UK]‘Cats on the Rooftops’ in Mess Songs & Rhymes of RAAF 1939-45 1: He walks around St Kilda with his doodle hanging out.
[US]Randolph & Wilson Down in the Holler 101: In Barry County, Missouri, one often hears doodle.
[Aus](con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘Cats on the Rooftops’ in Snatches and Lays 25: The poor old Creeping Jesus, of his morals there’s no doubt, / He walks around St Kilda with his doodle hanging out.
[Aus]N. Keesing Lily on the Dustbin 47: Those of the Dr Spock generation consciously scorned old-fashioned usages [...] A penis was called a penis and not a ‘tossle’ or a ‘doodle’.
[US]H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 117: A bumbler or silly person; also the penis. Ding-dong is one of several d words—including ding-a-ling, doodle, dingbat and dork—that combine these two meanings.
[Aus]T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 50: A Chiko Roll, a combination of cabbage and barley that looks like a deep-friend doodle. Something blokes can grab when they need satisfying.

2. (also doodle hole) the vagina.

[UK] ‘The Queen and Louise’ in Bold (1979) 190: At the sight of his prick, don’t pretend to be sick / But just give him plenty of doodle.
C. Lincoln [song title] Doodle Hole Blues.
[US]C. Shafer ‘Catheads [...] and Cho-Cho Sticks’ in Abernethy Bounty of Texas (1990) 202: doodle-gaze, v. – to look at a female, illegal in prison.
[Aus]M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 205: Your so-called ‘doodle-shaking dumb bimbo.’ [...] Every crim in the jail is getting his heart broken by every little doodle shaker in town.

3. any nameless small object, typically some form of gadget.

[US]L. Pound ‘American Indefinite Names’ in AS VI:3 258: Indefinite names [...] doodle.

Pertaining to the penis

In compounds

doodle-dandler (n.)

a masturbator.

[US]Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 190: A doodle-dandler is one who flogs the bishop, i.e. wanks off.
doodleflap (n.)

the flaccid penis.

[US]Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 190: Flap-doodle, doodle-flap, flapper and floater may refer to a young boy or to an old man, the one never having exprienced a cock-stand and the other a matter of memory.
doodle-head (n.) (also doodlebrain) [-head sfx (1)]

(Aus. teen) a general insult.

[Aus]G. Seal Lingo 104: Generalised insults included dick-wipe/knob/head/wit, doodle-head/brain.
doodle-hole (n.)

(US black) the vagina.

Charley Lincoln ‘Doodle Hole Blues’ 🎵 Oh doing the doodle do, / I like to take my straw, go play in that doodle hole.
doodle-sack (n.)

see separate entry.

In phrases

do a doodle-dandler (v.) [SE dandle, to fondle, to stroke]

to masturbate.

[US]Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 192: We also come across specialized terms in the male masturbation phrases such as […] do a doodle-dandler.
whack one’s doodle (v.)

of a man, to masturbate.

[US]L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 33: Swagger with your buddies, brag, leer at passing legs, whack your doodle at home at night.

Pertaining to nameless objects

In compounds

doodlebug (n.) [? southeastern dial. doodle-bug, a booming cockchafer]

1. a small cheap car, any small vehicle or a machine or gadget.

[US]A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 34/2: Dudle bug, a small aeroplane.
[US]J. Ciardi A Second Browser’s Dict. 76: Doodlebug. A whimsical nonesuch.
[US]T. Jones Pugilist at Rest 164: One laid down the stripper solution. Another took the doodle bug and began edging the sides of the hall.

2. a German V-1 flying bomb [post-WWII use is historical].

[UK]F. Norman in Education 22 Jan. in Norman’s London (1969) 91: Listening to the deafening explosions of bombs, rockets and doodle-bugs as the war progressed outside.
[UK] in G. Tremlett Little Legs 23: By then the doodle bugs were flying over the East End.
doodlebum (n.)

any nameless small object, typically some form of gadget.

[US]L. Pound ‘American Indefinite Names’ in AS VI:3 258: Indefinite names [...] doodlebum.
doodlefagit (n.)

any nameless small object, typically some form of gadget.

[US]L. Pound ‘American Indefinite Names’ in AS VI:3 258: Indefinite names [...] doodlefagit.
doodleflicker (n.)

any nameless small object, typically some form of gadget.

A.L. Crabb Lodging at the Saint Cloud 239: Well, I’ll be stomped on by a doodleflicker and et by a catawampus.