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Twiddle   Listen
verb
Twiddle  v. i.  To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Twiddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... want to get in your brush, and not only so, but you want to get your brush evenly full of it from tip to base, therefore you must splay out the hairs flat against the glass, till all are wet, and then in taking it off the palette, "twiddle" it to a point quickly. This takes long to describe, but it does not take a couple of seconds to do. You must have the patience to spend so much pains on it, and even to fill the brush very often, nearly for each touch; then you will get a clear, smooth, manageable stroke ...
— Stained Glass Work - A text-book for students and workers in glass • C. W. Whall

... lay by and twiddle my thumbs and listen to folks advisin' of me jest because I ain't obliged to work? I'm all beat out now doin' nothin'. Since I've bought the old place—gran'ther's farm, you know—I don't seem to be much better off. I can't go to farmin' it ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various

... they're going to use an arrow they put the point between the teeth of a little fish's jaw—sort o' pirana thing like them here in the river. Then they give the arrow a twiddle round, and the sharp teeth nearly eat it through, and when it hits and sticks in a wound the point breaks off, and I wouldn't give much for any one who ever got one of those bits of sharp ...
— Rob Harlow's Adventures - A Story of the Grand Chaco • George Manville Fenn



Words linked to "Twiddle" :   turn, revolve, fiddle with, twiddler, go around, whirl, twist, rotate, swirl, twirl, manipulate



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