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twiddle
English
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps a blend of twirl, twist, or twitch +? fiddle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tw?d?l/
Verb
twiddle (third-person singular simple present twiddles, present participle twiddling, simple past and past participle twiddled)
- (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Singing,”[1]
- The harder Small sang, the harder the cow chewed and the faster she twiddled her ears around as if stirring the song into the food to be rechewed in cud along with her breakfast.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Singing,”[1]
- (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
- Coordinate term: diddle
- (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
- (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
Derived terms
- twiddle one's thumbs
- twiddler
- twiddlesome
- twiddling line
Translations
Noun
twiddle (plural twiddles)
- A slight twist with the fingers.
- (Britain, dialectal) A pimple.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- A small decorative embellishment.
- A small musical flourish.
- A tilde.
- A drawn line that is curvy or twisted.
- A tiny bit
- A tizzy
References
Anagrams
- twidled
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tweedle
English
Alternative forms
- twidle
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?twi?d?l/
Verb
tweedle (third-person singular simple present tweedles, present participle tweedling, simple past and past participle tweedled)
- (intransitive, obsolete, Britain, dialect) To twist.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (transitive, obsolete) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle.
- (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.
- Synonym: wheedle
- To twiddle.
- (Britain, slang) To sell fake jewellery as genuine.
Derived terms
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Noun
tweedle (plural tweedles)
- A sound of the kind made by a fiddle.
- (Britain, slang) A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine.
Anagrams
- tweeled
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