twiddleverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈtwɪd.əl/us/ˈtwɪd.əl/to move something repeatedly between your fingers, especially without any purpose:
She was twiddling (with) a pencil/her hair.
Twiddle a dial/knob on a radio in the city and you may hear voices speaking Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, or Russian.
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Revolving, rotating and spinning
- centrifugal
- centripetal
- Foucault pendulum
- go round
- gyrate
- in rotation idiom
- rev
- rotate
- rotation
- round and round idiom
- rpm
- sidespin
- span
- spin
- spin (sb) around
- swing
- tailspin
- twirly
- wheel
- wheel round
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Touching & feeling
Idiom(s)
twiddle your thumbs
twiddlenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtwɪd.əl/us/ˈtwɪd.əl/mainly UKan act of turning something with the fingers:
At the twiddle of a knob the operators can focus on a tiny amount of airspace or scan the whole area.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revolving, rotating and spinning
- centrifugal
- centripetal
- Foucault pendulum
- go round
- gyrate
- in rotation idiom
- rev
- rotate
- rotation
- round and round idiom
- rpm
- sidespin
- span
- spin
- spin (sb) around
- swing
- tailspin
- twirly
- wheel
- wheel round
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