moodle

Definition

To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.

Etymology

Unknown

Example Sentences

• "Over a sonata by Schubert he — well, I suppose I must not say that he moodled, or maundered, or anything of that sort."
• "The Poet moodles (from Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write). She fools around, meanders, and takes time for feelings and not just ideas."
• "I cannot begin to count the number of times I have moodled, set a sermon aside, often in midstream, and taken a walk through the church gardens, or around the city block, even caught a brief nap on the study sofa; in other words, I have let my mind lie fallow, and then returned to the task with inspiration renewed."