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Tweedle-dums

Tweedle-dums is the plural of Tweedle-dum.

Meaning of Tweedle-dum

Noun

Tweedle-dum (plural Tweedle-dums)

  1. One of a pair (the other of the pair being Tweedle-dee) 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-dums

What is Tweedle-dums the plural of?
Tweedle-dums is the plural of Tweedle-dum.

Words near Tweedle-dums in the dictionary

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

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