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"etymology_text": "From a variant of tidder. See tid.",
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"To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand."
],
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"(transitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand."
],
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"word": "faddle"
},
{
"word": "grope"
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{
"word": "pettle"
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"To potter about; to do something idly."
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"(intransitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To potter about; to do something idly."
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"ref": "2007, Jeanne Willis, Who's in the Bathroom?:",
"text": "Is it a tiger who needed to tiddle?\nA wandering wombat who needed to widdle?\nA waddling penguin too frozen to piddle?",
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"To urinate."
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"(childish, UK) To urinate."
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"To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand."
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"(transitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand."
],
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},
{
"word": "faddle"
},
{
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},
{
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"To potter about; to do something idly."
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"(intransitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To potter about; to do something idly."
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"To urinate."
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"(childish, UK) To urinate."
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"word": "tiddle"
}
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