单词 | niddle |
释义 | niddlev. Scottish and Irish English (northern). intransitive. To fiddle, toy, or fidget, esp. with the fingers; to busy oneself in a pointless manner. Also transitive: to fiddle with (the fingers, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > twirl > twiddle niddle1808 twiddle1812 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Niddle, to trifle or play with the fingers; sometimes to be busily engaged with the fingers, without making progress. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 15 The wyres were gowden, braw to see, Wharewi' her fingers prettilie Did niddle i' their play. 1874 R. Ford in Harp Perthshire (1893) 319 They whiddled about, they niddled about, They chirm'd, they kiss'd, an caress'd. 1904 Gallovidian 6 69/2 Tam Russell and Samuel Nairn, who often assisted him, as they ‘niddled’ away at the nails. a1909 A. Anderson Later Poems (1912) 159 Auld Johnnie Noddle sleeps through a' the day..Then he waukens up an' niddles up an' doon. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 220 Sittin' niddlin' his thooms. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 235/1 Niddle, 1. work quickly with the fingers 2. work carefully and painstakingly with the fingers 3. trifle, potter about. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1808 |
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