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twiddling

twiddling is the present participle and gerund of twiddle.

Meaning of twiddle

Verb

twiddle (third-person singular simple present twiddles, present participle twiddling, simple past and past participle twiddled)

  1. (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
    • She sat and nervously twiddled her hair while she waited.
  2. (transitive) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
  3. (transitive) To be in an equivalence relation with.
  4. (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.

See all 12 meanings of twiddle

Noun

twiddling (plural twiddlings)

  1. The act of one who twiddles.
    • No doubt there are boys today whose twiddlings with an electrified guitar will lead them into rewarding careers like Kenin's.1970, United States. Congress, Congressional Record

Forms of twiddling

pluraltwiddlings

Words formed from twiddling

Phrases with twiddling

Questions about twiddling

What does twiddling mean?
Twiddling means the act of one who twiddles.
What is twiddling the present participle and gerund of?
Twiddling is the present participle and gerund of twiddle.
What part of speech is twiddling?
Twiddling is a noun.
What is the plural of twiddling?
The plural of twiddling is twiddlings.

Words near twiddling in the dictionary

  1. twiddles
  2. twiddles one's thumbs
  3. twiddlesome
  4. twiddlier
  5. twiddliest
  6. twiddling
  7. twiddling line
  8. twiddling lines
  9. twiddling one's thumbs
  10. twiddlings
  11. twiddly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: twiddling (page history and authors); twiddle (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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