doddle

Definition

A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from dialectal English doddle (“to toddle; sway; nod drowsily”).

Example Sentences

• "Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? / Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle."
• "Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not."
• "He was a QC from Edinburgh, wearing the black jacket and pinstripe trousers of his trade, as if straight from court, and probably persuaded to come in the belief that if you could interest the Budhill and Springboig party in the repressive Gaullist policies in Algeria then becoming Solicitor-General was a dawdle."