Crossword-Solution: TWIDDLE 7 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Twiddle v. t. To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl;
as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key.
Twiddle v. i. To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
Twiddle n. A slight twist with the fingers.
Twiddle n. A pimple.

We have 24 clues for the answer “TWIDDLE”

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Move one's thumbs idly 1 answer
What you may do to your thumbs 1 answer
Twist (thumbs?) 1 answer
twirl thumbs 1 answer
fiddle or twirl in an idle way 1 answer
___ one's thumbs 1 answer
Twirl without purpose 1 answer
Twirl and fiddle 1 answer
Thing to do with one's thumbs 1 answer
Rotate lightly 1 answer
Play lightly with 1 answer
Move about absently, as one's thumbs 1 answer
How to kill time with your thumbs? 1 answer
Fiddle with something in an aimless or nervous way 1 answer
Play with idly 2 answers
Turn about. 5 answers
A DOOR CONSISTING OF FOUR ORTHOGONAL PARTITIONS THAT ROTATE ABOUT A CENTRAL PIVOT 10 answers
fidget 11 answers
Tinker ___. 11 answers
Twirl 15 answers
wrest 20 answers
Wrestle (with) 35 answers
FIDDLE with 35 answers
fiddle 78 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TWIDDLE (5)

Also called `squiggle', `sqiggle' (sic --- pronounced /skig'l/), and `twaddle', but twiddle is the most common term.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Conversation is often no more than a nervous habit of body, like twiddling the thumbs, and to record each particular remark is as much as to describe each particular twiddle.
Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Raleigh 2007
Your mother’s appeal is to the whole of your mind, and that’s exactly the strength of her case.” Chad’s fingers continued to twiddle, but he had something of a drop.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1996
For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1996
Even if we do nothing but stand by and twiddle our thumbs, the cities will suffer automatic annihilation.
Down with the Cities Tadashi Nakashima 1996

Quotes with TWIDDLE (3)

I sat and asked God a question, never before now had I felt he was truly listening; Or was it i, that disrupted his appearance... Why God, must the treasures of our world be hard done by and the enemies of life become greater in their scheme of manipulation? Oh dear one, I chose the strong ones to hand the deepest lessons, because I know they can handle it and soon enough they will too. The ones that twiddle their thumbs and become ignorant to what's their truth; will attract…
Nikki Rowe
But she was so happy in her gilded cage, wasn’t she? She ate well, slept well, enjoyed herself She lacked nothing. And then, look, a bunch of mental cases turn her away from her happiness and send her to -- how did you put it? -- to ‘blow herself away’?. The good doctor lives next door to a war but he doesn’t want to hear a word about it. And he thinks his wife shouldn’t worry about it, either. … We’re at war. Some people take up arms; others twiddle their thumbs. And still o…
Yasmina Khadra The Attack
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscie…
D. H. Lawrence
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (2003–2014).