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Twiddle   Listen
verb
Twiddle  v. t.  (Written also twidle)  To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Twiddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... arch that cut across the rear of The Club saved him from receiving a lot more. But of course there were mitigations. Since walking was slow and awkward, Casey sat. And since he was not a man to sit and twiddle thumbs to pass the time, Casey played poker. That is how he explained it afterwards. He had not intended to play poker for twenty-four hours, but tie up a man's leg so he can't walk, and he's got ...
— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower

... up and about at dawn. It was still raining. Joe Ferris suggested mildly that they wait for better weather before plunging again into the sea of gumbo mud, but Roosevelt, who had not come to Dakota to twiddle his thumbs, insisted that they resume their hunt. They went and found nothing. The rain continued for ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn



Words linked to "Twiddle" :   revolve, turn, fiddle with, twist, twiddler, rotate, twirl, swirl, manipulate



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