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tiddling

tiddling is the present participle and gerund of tiddle.

Meaning of tiddle

Verb

tiddle (third-person singular simple present tiddles, present participle tiddling, simple past and past participle tiddled)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.
    Synonyms:
    dawt, faddle, grope, pettle
  2. (UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To potter about; to do something idly.
  3. (UK, childish) To urinate.
    • Is it a tiger who needed to tiddle?
      A wandering wombat who needed to widdle?
      A waddling penguin too frozen to piddle?2007, Jeanne Willis, Who's in the Bathroom?
    Synonyms:
    piddle, widdle

Questions about tiddling

What is tiddling the present participle and gerund of?
Tiddling is the present participle and gerund of tiddle.

Words near tiddling in the dictionary

  1. tiddleywinks
  2. tiddlier
  3. tiddlies
  4. tiddliest
  5. tiddliness
  6. tiddling
  7. tiddly
  8. tiddly suit
  9. tiddly suits
  10. tiddly-om-pom-pom
  11. tiddlywink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tiddling (page history and authors); tiddle (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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