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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
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
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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