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Definition of Twiddle
1. Noun. A series of small (usually idle) twists or turns.
2. Verb. Turn in a twisting or spinning motion. "The wooden sticks twiddle "; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"
Generic synonyms: Go Around, Revolve, Rotate
Derivative terms: Swirl, Twirl, Twirler, Whirl, Whirling
3. Verb. Manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner. "He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview"
Definition of Twiddle
1. v. t. To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key.
2. v. i. To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
3. n. A slight twist with the fingers.
Definition of Twiddle
1. Verb. (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twiddle
1. to play idly with something [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twiddle
Literary usage of Twiddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outing; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction by Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Ben James Worman, Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt (1884)
"THE twiddle TWINS. IT was a sultry August day. The sky was covered -with a thick
blanket ... Mr. twiddle drove his wheel along with a faint and half-wilted ..."
2. The Counting-out Rhymes of Children: Their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888)
"Perhaps twiddle 'um denotes "twiddle them." Compare Hood's " Stanzas on Coming
of Age" ... Pin, pon, musket John, twiddle-cum, twaddle-cum, twenty- one. ..."
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