twiddlev.¹

/ˈtwɪd(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1500s twydle, 1800s tweedle.

Etymology: Apparently onomatopoeic, intended to combine the idea of twirl or twist with that of trifling action, as in fiddle , piddle . Both verb and noun (see twiddle n.) are very rare before the 19th cent.

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.

a. transitive. To cause to rotate lightly or delicately; to turn (anything) about, esp. with the fingers; to twirl; to play with idly or absently; also, to adjust or bring into some place or condition by twirling or handling lightly.

ΘΚΠ

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

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > twirl > twiddle

twiddle1676

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iii. ii. 220 With my fingers upon the Stupe I pressed close upon it, and twiddled it in first one side, then the other.

1814 L. Hunt Feast of Poets 6 He fell twiddling a sunbeam as I may my pen.

1824 T. L. Beddoes Let. Feb. in Wks. (1935) 580 The sign of a fellow tweedling a mask in his fingers.

1840 F. Trollope Widow Married II. xiv. 32 The quilling of her tulle..twiddling it into becoming shape.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xvii, in Writings I. 182 He twiddled the reins between his fingers.

1860 W. M. Thackeray Tunbridge Toys in Roundabout Papers 62 I..amused myself with twiddling round the moveable calendar.

1886 G. Allen For Maimie's Sake xii With one hand twiddling his watch-chain nervously.

b. figurative. To twist, twirl, in various senses. Also Scottish, to diddle or do (one) out of something.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something

beguile1394

wrongc1484

delude1493

licka1500

to wipe a person's nose1577

uncle1585

cheat1597

cozen1602

to bob of1605

to bob out of1605

gull1612

foola1616

to set in the nick1616

to worm (a person) out of1617

shuffle1627

to baffle out of1652

chouse1654

trepan1662

bubble1668

trick1698

to bamboozle out of1705

fling1749

jockey1772

swindle1780

twiddle1825

to diddle out of1829

nig1829

to chisel out of1848

to beat out1851

nobble1852

duff1863

flim-flam1890

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) ‘He tried to twiddle me out of my money.’

1885 Times 12 Dec. 5 After being twiddled between the thumbs of two Conferences.

1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield (at cited word) ‘I can tweedle him round my thumb.’

1898 Daily News 11 Nov. 3/4 They can twiddle the facts about so that you don't know where you are.

1901 ‘R. Connor’ Man from Glengarry xi Bella just twiddled her father round her finger.

c. to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers, to keep turning them idly around each other; figurative to have nothing to do, to be idle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)]

emptyeOE

to tell the clock1527

idle1668

to kick one's heels1703

twirl1777

gammer1788

to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers1846

to make (also do) kef1852

goof1932

doss1937

to sit on one's hands1939

to bugger about ——1946

to spin one's wheels1960

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > twirl > twiddle > specifically the thumbs

to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers1846

1846 D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle xxii. 81 You'd have all the world do nothing half its time but twiddle its thumbs.

1850 G. Cupples Green Hand ii. 13/1 The..cotton-grower twiddled his thumbs, and looked modestly down on the deck.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. vi. 284 I have to twiddle my fingers and play patience.

1904 Times 15 June 4/1 We didn't twiddle our thumbs much that week.

3. intransitive. To move in a twirling manner; to turn about in a light or trifling way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > twirl > twiddle

niddle1808

twiddle1812

1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair iv. lv. 93 Five hundred fingers..Play twiddling up and down on hole and bore.

1844 W. M. Thackeray Contrib. to Punch in Wks. (1901) VI. 56 A few wretched little vessels are twiddling up and down.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxiv She..made a majestic curtesy, during which all the bugles in her awful head-dress began to twiddle and quiver.

1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist xiii. 261 Away went the bird, twiddling and straddling.

1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Tweedle, to work in a trifling, careless, or slovenly manner.

1907 F. Campbell Shepherd of Stars 146 [The donkey's] very ears twiddled with laughter.

Derivatives

ˈtwiddling adj. that twiddles; twirling; also, trifling, paltry.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible

unworthlyc1230

wretcha1250

seely1297

vilec1320

not worth a cress (kerse)1377

the value of a rushc1380

threadbarec1412

wretched1450

miserable?a1513

rascal1519

prettya1522

not worth a whistlea1529

pegrall1535

plack1539

pelting1540

scald1542

sleeveless1551

baggage1553

paltering1553

piddling1559

twopenny1560

paltry1565

rubbish1565

baggagely1573

pelfish1577

halfpenny1579

palting1579

baubling1581

three-halfpenny1581

pitiful1582

triobolar1585

squirting1589

not worth a lousea1592

hedge1596

cheap1597

peddling1597

dribbling1600

mean1600

rascally1600

three-farthingc1600

draughty1602

dilute1605

copper1609

peltry?a1610

threepenny1613

pelsy1631

pimping1640

triobolary1644

pigwidgeon1647

dustya1649

fiddling1652

puddlinga1653

insignificant1658

piteous1667

snotty1681

scrubbed1688

dishonourable1699

scrub1711

footy1720

fouty1722

rubbishing1731

chuck-farthing1748

rubbishy1753

shabby1753

scrubby1754

poxya1758

rubbishly1777

waff-like1808

trinkety1817

meanish1831

one-eyed1843

twiddling1844

measly1847

poking1850

picayunish1852

vild1853

picayune1856

snide1859

two-cent1859

rummagy1872

faddling1883

finicking1886

slushy1889

twopence halfpenny1890

jerk1893

pissy1922

crappy1928

two-bit1932

piddly1933

chickenshit1934

pissing1937

penny packet1943

farkakte1960

pony1964

gay1978

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > twirling > twiddling

twiddling1844

twiddly1906

1844 W. M. Thackeray Little Trav. i A lady in a little twiddling Parisian hat and feather.

1851 J. Colquhoun Moor & Loch (1880) I. 70 There is..the uncertainty whether the next point may be the red, or the ‘jetty, heath-cock’, or whether a twiddling snipe may spring.

1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden I. 81 The wishiwashy lady with little twiddling curls round her face.

1862 G. Meredith Mod. Love xxxiv Time leers between, above his twiddling thumbs.

ˈtwiddler n. one who or that which twiddles; in quot. 1904, a twirling delivery of the ball at Cricket, a ‘twister’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > twirling > twiddling > one who

twiddler1847

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball

full toss1826

long hop1830

twister1832

bail ball1833

bailer1833

grubber1837

slow ball1838

wide1838

ground ball1839

shooter1843

slower ball1846

twiddler1847

creeper1848

lob1851

sneak1851

sneaker1851

slow1854

bumper1855

teaser1856

daisy-cutter1857

popper1857

yorker1861

sharpshooter1863

headball1866

screwball1866

underhand1866

skimmerc1868

grub1870

ramrod1870

raymonder1870

round-armer1871

grass cutter1876

short pitch1877

leg break1878

lob ball1880

off-break1883

donkey-drop1888

tice1888

fast break1889

leg-breaker1892

kicker1894

spinner1895

wrong 'un1897

googly1903

fizzer1904

dolly1906

short ball1911

wrong 'un1911

bosie1912

bouncer1913

flyer1913

percher1913

finger-spinner1920

inswinger1920

outswinger1920

swinger1920

off-spinner1924

away swinger1925

Chinaman1929

overspinner1930

tweaker1938

riser1944

leg-cutter1949

seamer1952

leggy1954

off-cutter1955

squatter1955

flipper1959

lifter1959

cutter1960

beamer1961

loosener1962

doosra1999

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 119 Said the moustachio-twiddler.

1904 Daily Chron. 29 June 4/1 Reputable batsmen going out to Jephson's twiddlers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	twiddle
释义	twiddlen. /ˈtwɪd(ə)l/ Etymology: < twiddle v.¹ An act of twiddling; a twirl or twist; also, a curl, a twirled mark or sign; a ‘grace’ in music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > grace > specific spinger1659 backfall1676 acciaccatura1749 twiddle1774 beat1804 mordent1806 cadent1879 the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > condition of being twisted spirally > a spiral twist wrest?c1550 writhe1745 twiddle1849 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > twirling > twiddling > an act of twiddle1849 society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > [noun] > a twirled mark or sign twiddle1893 1774 T. Twining in Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 30 Purcell, with all his old curls and twiddles, is perfection to him. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Dinners in Wks. (1901) VI. 646 The coaxing twiddle which they give to the ties of their white chokers. 1893 Spectator 28 Jan. 101/2 ‘e’ for ‘æ’ is just as much a contraction as ‘r’ with a twiddle for ‘rum’. 1903 Daily Chron. 11 Dec. 7/2 A curious-looking diagram..with a few spots or twiddles on the light part of it. 1908 Jrnl. Folk-Song Soc. 3 iii. 155 He will..find no difficulty in keeping well together with the record, as regards rhythms, twiddles, added syllables dynamics, etc. 1975 New Yorker 21 Apr. 115/1 She adds to Rossini's tense exclamations a cascade of pretty twiddles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2018). twiddlev.¹ /ˈtwɪd(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1500s twydle, 1800s tweedle. Etymology: Apparently onomatopoeic, intended to combine the idea of twirl or twist with that of trifling action, as in fiddle , piddle . Both verb and noun (see twiddle n.) are very rare before the 19th cent. 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. 2. a. transitive. To cause to rotate lightly or delicately; to turn (anything) about, esp. with the fingers; to twirl; to play with idly or absently; also, to adjust or bring into some place or condition by twirling or handling lightly. ΘΚΠ 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 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > twirl > twiddle twiddle1676 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iii. ii. 220 With my fingers upon the Stupe I pressed close upon it, and twiddled it in first one side, then the other. 1814 L. Hunt Feast of Poets 6 He fell twiddling a sunbeam as I may my pen. 1824 T. L. Beddoes Let. Feb. in Wks. (1935) 580 The sign of a fellow tweedling a mask in his fingers. 1840 F. Trollope Widow Married II. xiv. 32 The quilling of her tulle..twiddling it into becoming shape. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xvii, in Writings I. 182 He twiddled the reins between his fingers. 1860 W. M. Thackeray Tunbridge Toys in Roundabout Papers 62 I..amused myself with twiddling round the moveable calendar. 1886 G. Allen For Maimie's Sake xii With one hand twiddling his watch-chain nervously. b. figurative. To twist, twirl, in various senses. Also Scottish, to diddle or do (one) out of something. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something beguile1394 wrongc1484 delude1493 licka1500 to wipe a person's nose1577 uncle1585 cheat1597 cozen1602 to bob of1605 to bob out of1605 gull1612 foola1616 to set in the nick1616 to worm (a person) out of1617 shuffle1627 to baffle out of1652 chouse1654 trepan1662 bubble1668 trick1698 to bamboozle out of1705 fling1749 jockey1772 swindle1780 twiddle1825 to diddle out of1829 nig1829 to chisel out of1848 to beat out1851 nobble1852 duff1863 flim-flam1890 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) ‘He tried to twiddle me out of my money.’ 1885 Times 12 Dec. 5 After being twiddled between the thumbs of two Conferences. 1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield (at cited word) ‘I can tweedle him round my thumb.’ 1898 Daily News 11 Nov. 3/4 They can twiddle the facts about so that you don't know where you are. 1901 ‘R. Connor’ Man from Glengarry xi Bella just twiddled her father round her finger. c. to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers, to keep turning them idly around each other; figurative to have nothing to do, to be idle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] emptyeOE to tell the clock1527 idle1668 to kick one's heels1703 twirl1777 gammer1788 to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers1846 to make (also do) kef1852 goof1932 doss1937 to sit on one's hands1939 to bugger about ——1946 to spin one's wheels1960 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > twirl > twiddle > specifically the thumbs to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers1846 1846 D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle xxii. 81 You'd have all the world do nothing half its time but twiddle its thumbs. 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand ii. 13/1 The..cotton-grower twiddled his thumbs, and looked modestly down on the deck. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. vi. 284 I have to twiddle my fingers and play patience. 1904 Times 15 June 4/1 We didn't twiddle our thumbs much that week. 3. intransitive. To move in a twirling manner; to turn about in a light or trifling way. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > twirl > twiddle niddle1808 twiddle1812 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair iv. lv. 93 Five hundred fingers..Play twiddling up and down on hole and bore. 1844 W. M. Thackeray Contrib. to Punch in Wks. (1901) VI. 56 A few wretched little vessels are twiddling up and down. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxiv She..made a majestic curtesy, during which all the bugles in her awful head-dress began to twiddle and quiver. 1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist xiii. 261 Away went the bird, twiddling and straddling. 1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Tweedle, to work in a trifling, careless, or slovenly manner. 1907 F. Campbell Shepherd of Stars 146 [The donkey's] very ears twiddled with laughter. Derivatives ˈtwiddling adj. that twiddles; twirling; also, trifling, paltry. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible unworthlyc1230 wretcha1250 seely1297 vilec1320 not worth a cress (kerse)1377 the value of a rushc1380 threadbarec1412 wretched1450 miserable?a1513 rascal1519 prettya1522 not worth a whistlea1529 pegrall1535 plack1539 pelting1540 scald1542 sleeveless1551 baggage1553 paltering1553 piddling1559 twopenny1560 paltry1565 rubbish1565 baggagely1573 pelfish1577 halfpenny1579 palting1579 baubling1581 three-halfpenny1581 pitiful1582 triobolar1585 squirting1589 not worth a lousea1592 hedge1596 cheap1597 peddling1597 dribbling1600 mean1600 rascally1600 three-farthingc1600 draughty1602 dilute1605 copper1609 peltry?a1610 threepenny1613 pelsy1631 pimping1640 triobolary1644 pigwidgeon1647 dustya1649 fiddling1652 puddlinga1653 insignificant1658 piteous1667 snotty1681 scrubbed1688 dishonourable1699 scrub1711 footy1720 fouty1722 rubbishing1731 chuck-farthing1748 rubbishy1753 shabby1753 scrubby1754 poxya1758 rubbishly1777 waff-like1808 trinkety1817 meanish1831 one-eyed1843 twiddling1844 measly1847 poking1850 picayunish1852 vild1853 picayune1856 snide1859 two-cent1859 rummagy1872 faddling1883 finicking1886 slushy1889 twopence halfpenny1890 jerk1893 pissy1922 crappy1928 two-bit1932 piddly1933 chickenshit1934 pissing1937 penny packet1943 farkakte1960 pony1964 gay1978 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > twirling > twiddling twiddling1844 twiddly1906 1844 W. M. Thackeray Little Trav. i A lady in a little twiddling Parisian hat and feather. 1851 J. Colquhoun Moor & Loch (1880) I. 70 There is..the uncertainty whether the next point may be the red, or the ‘jetty, heath-cock’, or whether a twiddling snipe may spring. 1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden I. 81 The wishiwashy lady with little twiddling curls round her face. 1862 G. Meredith Mod. Love xxxiv Time leers between, above his twiddling thumbs. ˈtwiddler n. one who or that which twiddles; in quot. 1904, a twirling delivery of the ball at Cricket, a ‘twister’. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > twirling > twiddling > one who twiddler1847 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball full toss1826 long hop1830 twister1832 bail ball1833 bailer1833 grubber1837 slow ball1838 wide1838 ground ball1839 shooter1843 slower ball1846 twiddler1847 creeper1848 lob1851 sneak1851 sneaker1851 slow1854 bumper1855 teaser1856 daisy-cutter1857 popper1857 yorker1861 sharpshooter1863 headball1866 screwball1866 underhand1866 skimmerc1868 grub1870 ramrod1870 raymonder1870 round-armer1871 grass cutter1876 short pitch1877 leg break1878 lob ball1880 off-break1883 donkey-drop1888 tice1888 fast break1889 leg-breaker1892 kicker1894 spinner1895 wrong 'un1897 googly1903 fizzer1904 dolly1906 short ball1911 wrong 'un1911 bosie1912 bouncer1913 flyer1913 percher1913 finger-spinner1920 inswinger1920 outswinger1920 swinger1920 off-spinner1924 away swinger1925 Chinaman1929 overspinner1930 tweaker1938 riser1944 leg-cutter1949 seamer1952 leggy1954 off-cutter1955 squatter1955 flipper1959 lifter1959 cutter1960 beamer1961 loosener1962 doosra1999 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 119 Said the moustachio-twiddler. 1904 Daily Chron. 29 June 4/1 Reputable batsmen going out to Jephson's twiddlers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). twiddlev.² Etymology: Imitative, or modification of tweedle v.¹ after twiddle v.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtwiddle. intransitive. To twitter or warble; to play triflingly on an instrument; to talk in a trifling or inept manner. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > chirp or twitter chirmOE chattera1250 janglea1300 jargon?a1366 chirkc1386 chirtc1386 chitterc1386 twittera1387 chirpc1440 yipc1440 channerc1480 quitter1513 chirrup1579 chipper1593 pip1598 gingreate1623 chita1639 sweet1677 shatter17.. swee-swee1839 weet-weet1845 cheet1855 tweet1856 twiddle1863 weet1866 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > play instrument [verb (intransitive)] > plunk or twiddle tudel1814 twiddle1863 plonk1891 plink1976 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 1863 J. R. Wise New Forest App. i. 287/2 The robins are twiddling,..which fact is said to be a sign of rain. 1873 C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene (1892) vii. 150 You have the great advantage of having already twiddled on the flute. 1893 National Observer 4 Mar. 386/2 The mob that twiddles of Ibsen will to-morrow shout of the morals of sculpture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1774v.¹a1547v.²1863
随便看	out-oven out-over out-paint out-paragon out-paramour out-parish out-party out-passage out-passion out-path out-patience out-pay out-peal out-peeping out-penny out-pension out-people out-picquet out-pipe out-pitch out-pity out-place out-plan out-please out-plod

twiddlen.

twiddlev.1

Derivatives

twiddlev.2

twiddlev.¹

twiddlev.²