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Definition of Tweedling
1. tweedle [v] - See also: tweedle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tweedling
Literary usage of Tweedling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"Dick heard, and tweedling, ogling, bridling. Turning short round, strutting and
sideling, Attested, glad, his approbation Of an immediate conjugation. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1864)
"... trimmed with gold embroidery, tweedling the loading- rod in his finger, and
an alfia cap on his head, whilst his pages held his chair and guns, ..."
3. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"Dick heard, and tweedling, ogling, bridling, Turned short 'round, strutting, and
sidling, Attested, glad, his approbation Of an immediate conjugation. ..."
4. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1864)
"He was sitting on the iron chair in the shade of the court, attended by some
eighty women, tweedling the loading-rod in his fingers ; but as my rod appeared ..."
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