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Tweedle   /twˈidəl/   Listen
Tweedle

verb
(Written also twidle)
1.
Sing in modulation.  Synonym: chirp.
2.
Play negligently on a musical instrument.
3.
Entice through the use of music.






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"Tweedle" Quotes from Famous Books



... is right for Tweedle-dum is wrong for Tweedle-dee," sang Peggy in her sweet contralto voice, Polly ...
— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... the names of those who fell on this fatal day. First, Jemmy Tweedle felt on his hinder head the direful bone. Him the pleasant banks of sweetly-winding Stour had nourished, where he first learnt the vocal art, with which, wandering up and down at wakes and fairs, he cheered ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding

... compar'd to Buononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a Ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle; Strange all this Difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham

... doubtless hours when his faith wavered a little in the wisdom of the decision that had invested all his patrimony in himself. He had been fortunate, to be sure, in securing a clerk's desk in the great law-office of Hunt, Sharp & Tweedle, and he had the kindly encouragement of the firm that, with close application to business, he would make his way. But even in this he had his misgivings, for a great part of his acquirements, and those he most valued, did not seem to be of any use in his office-work. He had a lofty conception ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner



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



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