TWEEDLE

tweedle

(verb) entice through the use of music

tweedle

(verb) play negligently on a musical instrument

tweedle, chirp

(verb) sing in modulation

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

tweedle (third-person singular simple present tweedles, present participle tweedling, simple past and past participle tweedled)

(intransitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To twist.

(transitive, obsolete) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle.

(transitive, obsolete, by extension) To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

Synonym: wheedle

To twiddle.

(UK, slang) To sell fake jewellery as genuine.

Noun

tweedle (plural tweedles)

A sound of the kind made by a fiddle.

(UK, slang) A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine.

Anagrams

• tweeled

Source: Wiktionary

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Twee"dle, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Twiddle.] [Written also twidle.]

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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