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Definition of Twiddlers
1. twiddler [n] - See also: twiddler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twiddlers
Literary usage of Twiddlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buffets: A Story by Charles Henry Doe (1875)
"All the members, even to the oldest and most dignified, called themselves, and
were called by their friends outside, "twiddlers." The twiddlers were, as a ..."
2. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by [Anonymus AC02789944] (1916)
"The Thumb-twiddlers. SEP Nov. 13-20, '15. You Had n't Ought To. SEP Sept. 25, '15.
HUGINS, ROLAND. The Devil and the Deep Sea. NSM Nov. ..."
3. Elbow-room: A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark, Arthur Burdett Frost (1876)
"The prevailing impression among the twiddlers was that Mr. Biles supplied an
exceedingly thin and watery fluid ; and one day when the judge stepped over to ..."
4. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"The first three have to do with the amount of re-creative work that must be done
that will cause coworkers to become temporary thumb-twiddlers. ..."
5. Comic Songs by Thomas Hudson (1818)
"n1"' • ' When after he'd rubb'd his bow with rosoni, A Fiddler would stick his
Kit to his bosom ; Then nobody cared for the twiddling twiddlers, ..."
6. Drum's House by Ida Wild (1914)
"He was at work on the strawberry-fields, following the twiddlers. Emma stood on
the field-side and watched the army of women dwindle away over the hill and ..."
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