tiddle

English

Etymology

From a variant of tidder. See tid.

Verb

tiddle (third-person singular simple present tiddles, present participle tiddling, simple past and past participle tiddled)

  1. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To treat with tenderness; to fondle.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To potter about; to do something idly.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tiddle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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