tweedle

To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle.

“Neaw, owd lad,” said he, as he screwed, first one peg, then another, and tweedled over little fits of wailing prelude, to get the tones he wanted.

Hark, —his tortured catgut squals He tickles every string, to every note He bends his pliant neck.—The fond yielding Maid Is tweedled into Love.

To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service.

But I tweedled him into letting you try, and here you are, a real member of the company.

To twiddle.

As it was, he tweedled the letter about in his hands for about five minutes, in a musing mood, and then stepped with it into Mr. Gammon's room.

Bob Pirgivie now tweedled his thumbs in double quick time, and rapidly sent around queer horizontal glances under his shaggy brows.

To sell fake jewellery as genuine.

I am afraid that the knowing author of the “cracking a-crib” book would be flummoxed by tweedling.

Girls, smokes, bit of smack, mossing, tweedling; a very democratic villain, Mr Salvatore.

To make a shrill or trilling sound

Yesterday I dined at the Percivals, and tweedled away upon a lovely harpsichord, and I was not bid to “mind my time.”

Something tweedled, and Temple jumped. Every new car had its own literal bells and whistles that told you to take the key out of the ignition, or put your seat belt on, or to turn off your headlights.

A sound of the kind made by a fiddle.

A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine.

Reggie had a way with him. People trusted him, and he could always pick up a few pounds when he needed them from the jargoons and the tweedle.