tweedle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sound of the kind made by a fiddle.
  2. A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine. UK,slang
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle. obsolete,transitive
    — “Neaw, owd lad,” said he, as he screwed, first one peg, then another, and tweedled over little fits of wailing prelude, to get the tones he wanted.
  2. To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. broadly,obsolete,transitive
    — A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service.
  3. To twiddle.
    — As it was, he tweedled the letter about in his hands for about five minutes, in a musing mood, and then stepped with it into Mr. Gammon's room.
  4. To sell fake jewellery as genuine. UK,slang
    — I am afraid that the knowing author of the “cracking a-crib” book would be flummoxed by tweedling.
  5. To make a shrill or trilling sound
    — Yesterday I dined at the Percivals, and tweedled away upon a lovely harpsichord, and I was not bid to “mind my time.”
  6. To say in a high-pitched voice.
    — 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?
  7. To trifle or play.
    — That exemption was not intended to be a hair splitting elusive hope to be tweedled away by administrative interpretation.
  8. To go; to proceed without much enthusiasm.
    — You all have undoubtedly noticed men in the rural pursuits tweedling along through life and finally end it all identical with what it was when they began: no better, no worse.
  9. To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee)
    — "I shall feel myself a failure as a chaperone surely," remarked Mrs.Green. "We think you a tremendous success," tweedled the twins.

词形变化

tweedles present,singular,third-person tweedling participle,present tweedled participle,past tweedled past twidle alternative tweedles plural twidle alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Tweedledum and Tweedledee tweedler

词源

词源 1
said to be imitative, probably influenced by wheedle. Compare teedle, toodle, twiddle
词源 2
said to be imitative, probably influenced by wheedle. Compare teedle, toodle, twiddle
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