tiddle
English
Etymology
From a variant of tidder. See tid.
Verb
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- (transitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To treat with tenderness; to fondle.
- (intransitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To potter about; to do something idly.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tiddle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)