Twiddler

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who twiddles.

    "These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens."

  2. 2
    someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner wordnet

Synonyms

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fiddler

Example

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"These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens."

Etymology

From twiddle + -er.

Related phrases

knob-twiddler

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