Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See twiddle.

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  • verb Alternative form of tweedle.

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Examples

  • There is a balance between eating with your eyes and letting the few moments of divine deliciousness escape as you twidle your thumbs staring at the food!

    One down, one more to go... 2006

  • Preachin was his nateral gait, but he warn't a man to lay back a twidle his thumbs because there didn't happen to be nothin 'do in his own especial line -- no, sir, he was a man who would meander forth and stir up something for hisself.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • Preachin was his nateral gait, but he warn't a man to lay back a twidle his thumbs because there didn't happen to be nothin 'do in his own especial line -- no, sir, he was a man who would meander forth and stir up something for hisself.

    Sketches New and Old, Part 2. Mark Twain 1872

  • Preachin was his nateral gait, but he warn't a man to lay back a twidle his thumbs because there didn't happen to be nothin 'do in his own especial line -- no, sir, he was a man who would meander forth and stir up something for hisself.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

  • For the record im not deffending MACs and i would not consider purchasing one for my Desktop or Work Laptop .. for the the first one i like to build my own PC and twidle with parts that suit me, for second MACs do not latest versions of Autocad, which i need.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2009

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