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Definition of Tweakings
1. tweaking [n] - See also: tweaking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tweakings
Literary usage of Tweakings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1907)
"And Aunt Ann coining in, Aunt Abbie lapsed into silence, a silence which, if
violent tweakings of her great nose meant anything, was filled with inward ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"How much insult, injury—how many hard words, fierce threats— nay, how many
tweakings of the nose might be borne by some forgiving souls, if—nobody would ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"Shakings, slappings with scabbards, and nose- tweakings, restored him to a
semi-consciousness ; but ho was as drunk as a dozen lords, and quite unable to ..."
4. The Anti-slavery Papers of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1902)
"are not beginning to redden under the vicarious tweakings they have so long
received through their waxen representatives here, as Virgil, you remember, ..."
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