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"ref": "2021, Ronald E. Goodwin, The New Deal and Texas History, page 63",
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"ref": "2009, Jef Mallett, Trizophrenia: Inside the Minds of a Triathlete",
"text": "moving slowly but moving nonetheless; and close enough that if I quit and he kept tweedling along, he would finish with more miles than I and I'd be even more depressed long after I stopped shivering. He did keep tweedling along, but so did I.",
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"ref": "1934, Latham R. Reed, Frankie in Wonderland, page 17",
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"text": "He blinked slowly and tweedled his long brown mustache between his fingers.",
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"text": "Mary noticed Gaby absently tweedling the green ribbon hanging from her coat's buttonhole.",
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"text": "John Hammerkein, the bulky, slow-voiced communications officer, tweedled knobs in the far corner, under the bulletin board where the field's traffic pattern was posted.",
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"ref": "2021, Ronald E. Goodwin, The New Deal and Texas History, page 63",
"text": "he (Driver) leaned back in his easy chair and playfully tweedled the ears of his devoted dog, who was curled up cat-like fashion in his master's lap.",
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"text": "Hurt that the Churts and I were exchanging fatuities over yet another second-rate painting instead of tweedling appreciatively over the extraordinary and beautiful child she was rocking on the other side of the room?",
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"ref": "2009, Michael D. Lieberman, The Tale of Mark Levine, page 184",
"text": "\"Oh, bien sur. Monsieur Raphael has only the kindest things to say,\" Azter tweedled. “Always.”",
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{
"ref": "2008, Bernard Lown, Prescription for Survival",
"text": "Intellectual tweedling is not within my character.",
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"text": "There aren't many things that make playwriting easy, but the fluency of the English language is a tremendous help. Now if you choose to write in Ur Chinese, you haven't got that, you've only got the meaning of what is being said. And that was bracing, after years of tweedling round with words.",
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"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2009, Jef Mallett, Trizophrenia: Inside the Minds of a Triathlete",
"text": "moving slowly but moving nonetheless; and close enough that if I quit and he kept tweedling along, he would finish with more miles than I and I'd be even more depressed long after I stopped shivering. He did keep tweedling along, but so did I.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2013, Stephen Dobyns, Saratoga Strongbox",
"text": "What was discretion but chickenheartedness and a capitulation to age? If I tweedled back to Saratoga without doing anything, then I might as well kiss Rosemary good-bye.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
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"go",
"go"
],
[
"proceed",
"proceed"
],
[
"enthusiasm",
"enthusiasm"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1919, Nell Speed, Tripping With the Tucker Twins",
"text": "\"I shall feel myself a failure as a chaperone surely,\" remarked Mrs.Green. \"We think you a tremendous success,\" tweedled the twins.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1934, Latham R. Reed, Frankie in Wonderland, page 17",
"text": "“Why, they're tweedling now, \" said little Frankie and sure enough they were, and tweedling in perfect unison too, without any expression whatsoever.“",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Emma Speed Sampson, The Carter Girls of Carter House",
"text": "\"[…] cold storage,” soothed Page Allison. “Not a chance,” tweedled the twins.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee)"
],
"links": [
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"speak",
"speak"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of two people) To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of two people",
"of two people"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtwiːdəl/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-tweedle.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-au-tweedle.ogg/En-au-tweedle.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-au-tweedle.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "twidle"
}
],
"word": "tweedle"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "tweedles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "tweedle (plural tweedles)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A sound of the kind made by a fiddle."
],
"links": [
[
"fiddle",
"fiddle"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, John Pearson, The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins",
"text": "Reggie had a way with him. People trusted him, and he could always pick up a few pounds when he needed them from the jargoons and the tweedle.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine."
],
"links": [
[
"confidence trick",
"confidence trick"
],
[
"fake",
"fake"
],
[
"jewellery",
"jewellery"
],
[
"genuine",
"genuine"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, slang) A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtwiːdəl/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-tweedle.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-au-tweedle.ogg/En-au-tweedle.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-au-tweedle.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "twidle"
}
],
"word": "tweedle"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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