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Tweedle   /twˈidəl/   Listen
verb
Tweedle  v. t.  (Written also twidle)  
1.
To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. "A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service."
2.
To twist. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Tweedle" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, "it's all very fine. I've no doubt of that, but I give you my word I would rather hear my old governor take his guitar and sing 'Father, oh father, come home with me now,' than all the fiddle-faddle, tweedle-deedle opera business in the ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... the names of those who fell on this fatal day. First, Jemmy Tweedle felt on his hinder head the direful bone. Him the pleasant banks of sweetly-winding Stour had nourished, where he first learnt the vocal art, with which, wandering up and down at wakes and fairs, he cheered ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding
... confirmed honest Hogarth's opinion about his talents for the sublime. Although Swift could not see the difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum, posterity has not shared the Dean's contempt for Handel; the world has discovered a difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum, and given a hearty applause and admiration to Hogarth, ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... But my name is Orr Tweet, and my nickname is Twitter-or-Tweet. Therefore, I am Twitter-or-Tweet Orr Tweet, or Twitter-or-Tweet Tweet. You've heard the story of the lady who asked the ticket agent for 'Two to Duluth,' haven't you? He thought she was flirting with him, and came back with 'Tweedle-de-dee;' whereupon she slapped him. So far I have escaped such consequences when telling people my name. But if, when asked, I reply 'Orr Tweet,' they say 'What or Tweet?' Then if I reply 'Twitter-or-Tweet Orr Tweet,' ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... sacred pleasure, I have been inhabiting the most abstract realms of heroic sentiment, living on the most diluted moonshine, and spinning out elaborately all those charming and seraphic distinctions between tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee with which these ecstatic creatures delight themselves in certain stages of affaires ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various


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