Word.ws English Dictionary

Word of the Day:

twiddly

adjective/ˈtwɪd(ə)li/

What It Means

Capable of being finely or idly adjusted with the fingers.

Having an elaborately twisted form.

In music, having a rapid series of musical notes.

See the entry

Twiddly in Context

“The bugle called, a twiddly bit and then one long note.”

— 2011, Gavin Lyall, All Honourable Men

More example sentences

Did You Know?

From twiddle + -y.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: twiddly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.

Cite this entry: “twiddly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/twiddly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Latest Words of the Day

More from Word of the Day