tiddle

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verb

To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.

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Meanings

verbtiddle (third-person singular simple present tiddles, present participle tiddling, simple past and past participle tiddled)

present singular third person tiddles · participle present tiddling · participle past tiddled · past tiddled

  1. UKdialectalobsoletetransitiveTo treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.

    Synonyms: dawt, faddle, grope, pettle

  2. UKdialectalintransitiveobsoleteTo potter about; to do something idly.
  3. UKchildishTo urinate.

    Is it a tiger who needed to tiddle? A wandering wombat who needed to widdle? A waddling penguin too frozen to piddle?

    2007, Jeanne Willis, Who's in the Bathroom?

    Synonyms: piddle, widdle

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.

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dawtfaddlegropepettle

verbTo urinate.

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piddlewiddle
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dawtfondlepettle

Origin

From a variant of tidder. See tid.

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APA

tiddle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiddle

MLA

“tiddle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiddle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tiddle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiddle.

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