tidbits

Noun

tidbit (plural tidbits)

1. (US) 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
2. (US) 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
3. (US) 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...
4. (US) 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