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Tweedle   Listen
verb
Tweedle  v. t.  (Written also twidle)  
1.
To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. "A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service."
2.
To twist. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Tweedle" Quotes from Famous Books



... bought you a pretty little green parasol; and I love you, oh! so dearly! you precious little roly-poly tweedle-de diamond-darling! What do you think of that for a love name? you sweet little humpy-dumpy tweedle-dum rosebud robin! there's ...
— The Little Nightcap Letters. • Frances Elizabeth Barrow
... almost-imperceptible motion as you look at them; and the silence was unbroken save by the chuck-chuck-chuck of some meddlesome blackbird in the shrubbery annoying the sparrows in their nap, and the answering click-clink-tweedle-deedle-dum-tum-tweedle-um of the yellow- hammer, telling as plainly as the little songster could tell that he at all events was wide awake, while, in the far distance, there could be heard the coo of ring-doves and the melancholy lament of the cuckoo investigating the hedgerows in quest ...
— Teddy - The Story of a Little Pickle • J. C. Hutcheson


Words linked to "Tweedle" :   music, lure, entice, tempt, play, chirp, sing


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