whiddle

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English

Verb

whiddle (third-person singular simple present whiddles, present participle whiddling, simple past and past participle whiddled)

  1. (slang) To inform on someone.
    • 2003, Brian Penton, The Inheritors, page 475:
      He said he only wanted one thing — if I'd chuck Gursey out again, in case he went whiddling to the colonel.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary