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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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