Definition of Tweedling

1. Verb. (present participle of tweedle) ¹

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Definition of Tweedling

1. tweedle [v] - See also: tweedle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tweedling

tweaky
twee
twee pop
tweed
tweedier
tweediest
tweedily
tweediness
tweedinesses
tweedle
tweedled
tweedler
tweedlers
tweedles
tweedlike
tweedling (current term)
tweeds
tweedy
tweek
tweeker
tweekers
tweel
tweeled
tweeling
tweels
tweely
tween
tweenage
tweenager
tweenagers

Literary usage of Tweedling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"Dick heard, and tweedling, ogling, bridling. Turning short round, strutting and sideling, Attested, glad, his approbation Of an immediate conjugation. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1864)
"... trimmed with gold embroidery, tweedling the loading- rod in his finger, and an alfia cap on his head, whilst his pages held his chair and guns, ..."

3. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"Dick heard, and tweedling, ogling, bridling, Turned short 'round, strutting, and sidling, Attested, glad, his approbation Of an immediate conjugation. ..."

4. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1864)
"He was sitting on the iron chair in the shade of the court, attended by some eighty women, tweedling the loading-rod in his fingers ; but as my rod appeared ..."

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