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Webster 1913 Edition
Tweedle
1.
To handle lightly; – said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.
A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had
tweedled
into the service. Addison.
2.
To twist.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tweedle
TWEE'DLE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2025
tweedle
tweedle
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Alternative forms
Verb
tweedle (third-person singular simple present tweedles, present participle tweedling, simple past and past participle tweedled)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) to twist
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward fiddling.
- (obsolete, by extension) To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.
- Addison
- A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service.
- Addison
- (mistakenly?) to twiddle