Meaning

9 senses
  1. To twiddle.

  2. (UK, slang)To sell fake jewellery as genuine.

  3. To make a shrill or trilling sound

  4. To say in a high-pitched voice.

  5. To trifle or play.

    play negligently on a musical instrument

  6. To go; to proceed without much enthusiasm.

  7. To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee)

  8. (obsolete, transitive)To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle.

  9. (broadly, obsolete, transitive)To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

Origin

said to be imitative, probably influenced by wheedle. Compare teedle, toodle, twiddle

said to be imitative, probably influenced by wheedle. Compare teedle, toodle, twiddle

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Forms

tweedles, tweedling, tweedled, tweedled
Base formtweedle · to tweedle
3rd person singulartweedles
Present participletweedling
Past simpletweedled
Past participletweedled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytweedle
he, she, ittweedles

Past simpleLesson

all personstweedled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tweedled
he, she, ithas tweedled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tweedle

Synonyms

65 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedtweedler

See also

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