Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To handle lightly and idly; twiddle; fiddle with.
- To play on a fiddle or bagpipe.
- To wheedle; coax.
- To wriggle; twist one's self about.
- noun A sound such as is made by a fiddle.
- noun [The words tweedledum and tweedledee are humorous expansions of tweedle, used together to indicate distinctions that are almost imperceptible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To twist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, UK, dialect to
twist - verb obsolete To
handle lightly ; said with reference to awkwardfiddling . - verb obsolete, by extension To influence as if by fiddling; to
coax ; toallure . - verb to
twiddle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb play negligently on a musical instrument
- verb entice through the use of music
- verb sing in modulation
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Examples
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CA & NV need to recall tweedle dee umb & tweedle dumber.
Michelle Malkin 2008
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My goodness – what will "tweedle dee and tweedle dumb" say this time?
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So because some racists might refuse to take something like intent into account (a necessary element of murder, not necessarily “stating” it like tweedle-dee tomemos suggests) therefore we should apply the same standard in this case?
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"Cover your tweedle, save the American burying beetle."
Kieran Suckling: 7 Billion: More of Us, Fewer of Them Kieran Suckling 2011
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I listen to my dog pant, to the birds tweedle, to the rain outside my window.
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This assumes that this woman has built a multi-neighborhood, multi-racial coalition; that she has a rainbow coalition of campaign leaders who have organized a powerful field operation; that she has a message that motivates and turns out women voters who see tweedle dum and tweedle dee in the male candidates.
Rebecca Sive: How a Woman Wins the Race to Replace Mayor Daley 2010
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This assumes that this woman has built a multi-neighborhood, multi-racial coalition; that she has a rainbow coalition of campaign leaders who have organized a powerful field operation; that she has a message that motivates and turns out women voters who see tweedle dum and tweedle dee in the male candidates.
Rebecca Sive: How a Woman Wins the Race to Replace Mayor Daley 2010
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This assumes that this woman has built a multi-neighborhood, multi-racial coalition; that she has a rainbow coalition of campaign leaders who have organized a powerful field operation; that she has a message that motivates and turns out women voters who see tweedle dum and tweedle dee in the male candidates.
Rebecca Sive: How a Woman Wins the Race to Replace Mayor Daley 2010
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But who would really stand up for that poor, insolent tweedle brain?
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But who would really stand up for that poor, insolent tweedle brain?
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