tidbit
/ˈtɪd.bɪt/
tidbit noun: a part of poultry when prepared as food.
Noun
tidbit (plural tidbits)
- A part of poultry when prepared as food
- The best mode of cutting up this Poultry is by raising, one after another, the four members, beginning by a thigh and wing on the same side, the tidbits and the white-meats; then break off the rump, and cut the body horizontally. Divide each thigh into two, and wing into three pieces; the body and...1846, French Domestic Cookery, Combining Elegance with Economy
- If in any case he ever reserved the tidbits of his own table for his own taste, he was never weary of sending the whole joint, tidbit and all, nay even when the whole joint was itself a tidbit, to his neighbor's table.1875, Death of Hon. Samuel Hooper
- A tasty morsel (of food).
- Only a tidbit to a ravenous mouth. (Said when the little tidbit Denmark flies down the huge gullet of Prussia; or when Saghalin falls into Russia's maw.)1887, William Elliot Griffis, The Mikado's Empire
- A short item of news, gossip, or information.
- Maya: Maybe we should leave a juicy tidbit for someone to read!2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, quoting Maya, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC, Nintendo DS, scene: Part 3: Investigation, Cafeteria, level/area...
- In the congressional apportionment that followed the 1910 census, the average district had 210,328 people, according to the Census Bureau. We make note of this historical tidbit simply to emphasize the obvious fact that DC’s current population is far greater than the population of many of the...2021 April 21, Daniel Dale, “Fact-checking Nancy Mace’s claim that DC wouldn’t ‘qualify’ as a single congressional district”, in CNN
- Generically, any small thing.
- This little book is very entertaining—quite a literary tidbit.1894, Richard Soule, Loomis Joseph Campbell, Pronouncing Handbook of Words Often Mispronounced and of Words as to which a Choice of Pronunciation is Allowed
tidbit meaning in Tamil and Urdu
tidbit in Tamil
- உணவுத் துண்டு, சுவையான துணுக்கு
tidbit in Urdu
- کوئی مزیدار چیز
Examples of tidbit in a sentence
- The tidbit is a veiny piece under the thigh, at the beginning of wing.1846, French Domestic Cookery, Combining Elegance with Economy:
- We make note of this historical tidbit simply to emphasize the obvious fact that DC’s current population is far greater than the population of many of the districts of generations past.2021 April 21, Daniel Dale, “Fact-checking Nancy Mace’s claim that DC wouldn’t ‘qualify’ as a single congressional district”, in CNN:
Forms of tidbit
| plural | tidbits |
|---|---|
| alternative Commonwealth | titbit |
Origin of tidbit
From Old English tid (“fond, tender, nice”) + English bit (“morsel”).
Words that rhyme with tidbit
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Questions about tidbit
- What does tidbit mean?
- Tidbit means a part of poultry when prepared as food.
- What is tidbit in Tamil?
- Tidbit in Tamil is உணவுத் துண்டு, சுவையான துணுக்கு. See Tidbit meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use tidbit in a sentence?
- The tidbit is a veiny piece under the thigh, at the beginning of wing.
- What part of speech is tidbit?
- Tidbit is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tidbit?
- Tidbit is pronounced /ˈtɪd.bɪt/.
- What is the plural of tidbit?
- The plural of tidbit is tidbits.
Words near tidbit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tidbit (page history and authors); tidbit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tidbit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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