English Dictionary

tweedle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtwiːdəl/

動詞

廃用 他動詞 広義 イギリス英語 俗語 双数

(transitive, obsolete) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle. / (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. / To twiddle.

日本語の意味

（古風な用法で）軽く扱う、または不器用にバイオリンのような弦楽器を演奏するように扱う / （派生的に）手先でいじるように影響を与える、なだめる、魅了する / 「twiddle」と同様に、指先でもじもじする、弄るといった意味

Before the archivist left the room, he told his apprentice to tweedle the brittle manuscript, touching it only lightly.

書庫の係が部屋を出る前に、彼は見習いに脆い写本をそっと扱うように言い、触るときはほんの軽く触れるよう指示した。

意味（1）

(transitive, obsolete) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle.

“Neaw, owd lad,” said he, as he screwed, first one peg, then another, and tweedled over little fits of wailing prelude, to get the tones he wanted.

意味（2）

(transitive, obsolete, by extension) 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.

意味（3）

To twiddle.

As it was, he tweedled the letter about in his hands for about five minutes, in a musing mood, and then stepped with it into Mr. Gammon's room.

意味（4）

(UK, slang) To sell fake jewellery as genuine.

I am afraid that the knowing author of the “cracking a-crib” book would be flummoxed by tweedling.

意味（5）

To make a shrill or trilling sound

Yesterday I dined at the Percivals, and tweedled away upon a lovely harpsichord, and I was not bid to “mind my time.”

意味（6）

To say in a high-pitched voice.

Hurt that the Churts and I were exchanging fatuities over yet another second-rate painting instead of tweedling appreciatively over the extraordinary and beautiful child she was rocking on the other side of the room?

意味（7）

To trifle or play.

That exemption was not intended to be a hair splitting elusive hope to be tweedled away by administrative interpretation.

意味（8）

To go; to proceed without much enthusiasm.

You all have undoubtedly noticed men in the rural pursuits tweedling along through life and finally end it all identical with what it was when they began: no better, no worse.

意味（9）

(of two people) To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee)

I shall feel myself a failure as a chaperone surely, remarked Mrs.Green. We think you a tremendous success, tweedled the twins.

tweedles （ present singular third-person ）

tweedling （ participle present ）

tweedled （ participle past ）

tweedled （ past ）