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tiddler
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tiddler has 1 sense
- tiddler(n = noun.person) child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tike, tyke, youngster - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" has parts: child's body
is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
has particulars: bairn, buster, changeling, child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child, foster child, foster-child, fosterling, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, kiddy, orphan, peanut, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, poster child, kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler, silly, sprog, bambino, toddler, tot, yearling, urchin, street child, waif
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tiddler, n. Brit. colloq.
1 a small fish, esp. a stickleback or minnow.
2 an unusually small thing or person.
1 a small fish, esp. a stickleback or minnow.
2 an unusually small thing or person.
Etymology
perh. rel. to TIDDLY(2) and tittlebat, a childish form of stickleback
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