"twiddly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, Fi Glover, Travels With My Radio: I Am An Oil Tanker",
          "text": "Radio – with its buttons and twiddly knobs and white noise in between – is on the tip of a huge wave of change, courtesy of the Internet.",
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          "ref": "1915, John Galsworthy, The Freelands",
          "text": "Through the open doorway Nedda could see […] the back of Mr. Cuthcott in a twiddly chair, surrounded by sheets of paper reposing on the floor, shining like autumn leaves on a pool of water.",
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        "Capable of being finely or idly adjusted with the fingers."
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        "(informal) Capable of being finely or idly adjusted with the fingers."
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          "ref": "1958, New Scientist",
          "text": "The design of an indicator is often — indeed usually — thought to be the business of the engineer, perhaps aided by someone — an artist or a \"stylist\" — who adds an aesthetic touch, a twiddly bit, a strip of chromium, a dash of paint, or better still several dashes in clashing colours, of which a bilious yellow will be one.",
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          "ref": "2010, Lawrence Zeegen, Complete Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Image-Making",
          "text": "Everyone has a computer, everyone has the same software, and everyone thinks they can stick a couple of butterflies onto a twiddly background and they have an illustration. They don't have an illustration; they have decoration.",
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          "ref": "2011, Pamela Haines, Men on White Horses",
          "text": "It was her nose was the worst. It seemed to have been twisted into a hook with a twiddly bit at the top.",
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        "Having an elaborately twisted form."
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        "(informal) Having an elaborately twisted form."
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          "text": "There are moments when the band sounds oddly like its acoustic predecessor, and there are some feints at free jazz, but the most curious episode, unlike any other live Miles I know, is a long spacey improvisation using wood flute, related less to the twiddly studio jams than to the ritual atmospherics of Chicago's creative-music vanguard.",
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          "ref": "2011, Gavin Lyall, All Honourable Men",
          "text": "The bugle called, a twiddly bit and then one long note.",
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        "In music, having a rapid series of musical notes."
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        "(informal) In music, having a rapid series of musical notes."
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      "ipa": "/ˈtwɪd(ə)li/"
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        },
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        "Having an elaborately twisted form."
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        },
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          "ref": "2011, Gavin Lyall, All Honourable Men",
          "text": "The bugle called, a twiddly bit and then one long note.",
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        "In music, having a rapid series of musical notes."
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