Tiddle

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand. UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    To potter about; to do something idly. UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
  3. 3
    To urinate. UK, childish

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

Synonyms

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canoodlecaresscoaxdallydawtfaddle

Example

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

Etymology

From a variant of tidder. See tid.

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