| 单词 | to twiddle with or at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto twiddle with or at 1. intransitive. To be busy about trifles; to trifle; also to twiddle with or at = sense 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > act without seriousness [verb (intransitive)] twiddlea1547 dally1548 trifle1736 dandle1829 to rot abouta1893 flibbertigibbet1921 the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (transitive)] > touch or handle idly or restlessly finger1546 to toy with ——1576 paddlea1616 nibble1676 twiddle1676 trifle1818 to pick at ——1841 to play off and on with1845 piggle1847 to twiddle with or at1847 a1547 J. Redford Moral Play Wit & Sci. (1848) 18 As for her syngyng, pypyng, and fydlyng, what unthryftynes therin is twydlyng? a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Twiddle,..to be busy and bestow seeming pains about the merest trifles... ‘What are you twiddling about there?’ 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxii. 278 Even in the midst of his terror he began mechanically to twiddle with his hair. 1865 J. S. Le Fanu Guy Deverell ii The Baronet twiddled at his whisker..in the glass. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. viii. 373 The hands..may often be seen unconsciously stealing upwards to ‘twiddle’ with their watch-keys. < as lemmas |
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