English Dictionary

twiddle

/ˈtwɪdəl/

noun

A slight twist with the fingers. / A wiggling movement. / A small decorative embellishment. / A small musical flourish. / A tilde. / A drawn line that is curvy or twisted. / A tiny bit / A tizzy

She gave the twiddle to her hair while thinking.

意味（1）

A slight twist with the fingers.

He put away the reciever with receiver with a twiddle of pudgy fingers.

意味（2）

A wiggling movement.

Why should I agree that a twiddle of skirts from right to left and pointing a toe in one direction mean “ He loves me,” while the reverse twiddle and the toe pointed in the opposite direction "He loves me not”?

意味（3）

A small decorative embellishment.

A great many fidgety occupations will come to an end: we shan't put a pattern on a cloth or a twiddle on a jug-handle to sell it, but to make it prettier and to amuse ourselves and others.

意味（4）

A small musical flourish.

. “ Oh, auntie,” she exclaims, “ these great Goths of Englishmen put a twiddle into the last bar of the 'Minstrel Boy,' just fancy that!”

意味（5）

A tilde.

For those places which feed input arcs leading to more than one transition, a twiddle symbol (e.g., '~') may be used as the enabling predicate for one of the transitions.

意味（6）

A drawn line that is curvy or twisted.

It will then be seen that the inscriptions are very nearly alike, but an expert in Arabic or Vedic writing would recognize at once that they differ in more respects than in having a twiddle too much or a twiddle too little.

意味（7）

A tiny bit

Trying to tune in on your own face color is a bit like that: a twiddle too red, a twiddle too pale,

意味（8）

A tizzy

Hey, diddle, diddle, we're all in a twiddle, Although we're cuffed and we're cuffed, To be quite exact we cannot act, For, you see, we are all of us stuffed.