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English
Etymology
From a variant of tidder. See tid.
Verb
tiddle (third-person singular simple present tiddles, present participle tiddling, simple past and past participle tiddled)
- (transitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.
- Synonyms: dawt, faddle, grope, pettle
- (intransitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To potter about; to do something idly.
- (childish, UK) To urinate.
- Synonyms: piddle, widdle
2007, Jeanne Willis, Who's in the Bathroom?:Is it a tiger who needed to tiddle?
A wandering wombat who needed to widdle?
A waddling penguin too frozen to piddle?
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