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tiddledy

tiddledy is the alternative form of diddly.

Meaning of diddly

Interjection

  1. A written representation of a trill sound.
    • On the handcar mornings or evenings he would amuse his companion by pumping away to a triple-tongued pattern, which he would hum emphatically as they rolled along: "dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee dee-dum dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee..."1993, Hugh Hood, Be sure to close your eyes: a novel

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Phrases with tiddledy

Questions about tiddledy

What is tiddledy the alternative form of?
Tiddledy is the alternative form of diddly.

Words near tiddledy in the dictionary

  1. tiddivated
  2. tiddivates
  3. tiddivating
  4. tiddle
  5. tiddled
  6. tiddledy
  7. Tiddledy Winks
  8. tiddledywink
  9. tiddledywinks
  10. tiddler
  11. tiddlers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tiddledy (page history and authors); diddly (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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