tweedle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle.

   ““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. fiil 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.”

3. fiil 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. fiil To sell fake jewellery as genuine.

   “I am afraid that the knowing author of the “cracking a-crib” book would be flummoxed by tweedling.”

5. fiil 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. fiil 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. fiil To trifle or play.

   “That exemption was not intended to be a hair splitting elusive hope to be tweedled away by administrative interpretation.”

8. fiil 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. fiil 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.”

10. isim A sound of the kind made by a fiddle.
11. isim A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine.

    “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.”