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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
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twid=dle

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun has 1 sense

Verb has 2 senses

  • twiddle(v = verb.motion) swirl, twirl, whirl - turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"

  • Derived form noun twiddle1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s PP
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  • twiddle(v = verb.contact) fiddle with - manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner; "He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview"

  • Derived form noun twiddler1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something

CIDE DICTIONARY

v. t. Array
     To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key.  Thackeray.  [1913 Webster]
v. i. 
     To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]
n. 
  •  A slight twist with the fingers.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A pimple.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. & (foll. by with etc.) intr. twirl, adjust, or play randomly or idly.
2 intr. move twirlingly.
--n.
1 an act of twiddling.
2 a twirled mark or sign.

Idiom
twiddle one's thumbs
1 make them rotate round each other.
2 have nothing to do.
Derivative
twiddler n. twiddly adj.
Etymology
app. imit., after twirl, twist, and fiddle, piddle

THESAURUS

babble, cackle, chat, chatter, come in contact, coquet, dabble, dally, do nothing, feel, feel of, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget, fidget with, finger, finger with, flick, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, fribble, frivol, gab, handle, horse around, idle, jerk off, juggle, kid around, loiter, manipulate, mess around, mess with, monkey, monkey around, monkey with, palm, palpate, paw, piddle, play, play around, play with, ply, poke at, potter, prattle, prod, putter, rattle, smatter, tap, thumb, tinker, touch, toy, toy with, trifle, twirl, waste time, wield, wiggle, yak

ROGET THESAURUS

Touch

VB touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble, twiddle, tweedle, pass the fingers over, run the fingers over, manipulate, wield, throw out a feeler.

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