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Tweedle   /twˈidəl/   Listen
verb
Tweedle  v. t.  (Written also twidle)  
1.
To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, 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."
2.
To twist. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Tweedle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Belvedere and Lady Clementina. I am afraid there could have been no compleat happiness in the matrimonial union of the English Gentleman and the Italian Lady. The marriage state may be aptly enough compared to two fiddles playing in concert: if the one can sound no higher than Tweedle-dum, and the other no lower than Tweedle-dee, there never can be any thing but a perpetual jarring discord and dissonance betwixt them. In the same manner the difference in religious sentiments would have been a great allay in the ...
— Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) • Anonymous
... confirmed honest Hogarth's opinion about his talents for the sublime. Although Swift could not see the difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum, posterity has not shared the Dean's contempt for Handel; the world has discovered a difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum, and given a hearty applause and admiration to Hogarth, ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... said, "it's all very fine. I've no doubt of that, but I give you my word I would rather hear my old governor take his guitar and sing 'Father, oh father, come home with me now,' than all the fiddle-faddle, tweedle-deedle opera business in the ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris


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