Crossword-Solution: TWIDDLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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
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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.
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.
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.
For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals.
Even if we do nothing but stand by and twiddle our thumbs, the cities will suffer automatic annihilation.
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…
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…
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…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2003–2014).