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Tweedle-dees

Tweedle-dees is the plural of Tweedle-dee.

Meaning of Tweedle-dee

Noun

Tweedle-dee (plural Tweedle-dees)

  1. One of a pair (the other of the pair being Tweedle-dum) of nominally different (often: but practically identical) things.
    • Some ſay, compar’d to Bononcini, / That Mynheer Handel’s but a Ninny; / Others aver, that he to Handel / Is ſcarcely fit to hold a Candle: / Strange all this Difference ſhould be, / ’Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!1773, “Epigram on the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini”, in Miscellaneous Poems, Manchester: J. Harrop, pp 343–44

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Questions about Tweedle-dees

What is Tweedle-dees the plural of?
Tweedle-dees is the plural of Tweedle-dee.

Words near Tweedle-dees in the dictionary

  1. tweediest
  2. tweedily
  3. tweediness
  4. tweedle
  5. Tweedle-dee
  6. Tweedle-dees
  7. Tweedle-dum
  8. Tweedle-dums
  9. tweedled
  10. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
  11. Tweedledum and Tweedledumber

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