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tiddler [tid′lər]n.[Informal, Chiefly Brit.] Chiefly Brit. Informal1. a very small fish2. a small, minor, or unimportant thing or person
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tiddler — ► NOUN Brit. informal 1) a small fish. 2) a young or unusually small person or thing. ORIGIN perhaps related to TIDDLY(Cf. ↑tiddly) or tittlebat, a childish form of stickleback … English terms dictionary
tiddler — [tid′lər] n. [Informal, Chiefly Brit.] Chiefly Brit. Informal 1. a very small fish 2. a small, minor, or unimportant thing or person … English World dictionary
Tiddler — A tiddler is an entry in a TiddlyWiki. It is equivalent to a wiki page and uses a simplified markup language similar to that used by Wikipedia. In fact the original source text for this entry was entered in a TiddlyWiki and yielded pretty much… … Wikipedia
tiddler — [[t]tɪ̱dlə(r)[/t]] tiddlers 1) N COUNT A tiddler is a very small fish of any kind. [BRIT, INFORMAL] 2) N COUNT: usu with supp If you refer to a person or thing as a tiddler, you mean that they are very unimportant or small, especially when… … English dictionary
tiddler — UK [ˈtɪd(ə)lə(r)] / US [ˈtɪd(ə)lər] noun [countable] Word forms tiddler : singular tiddler plural tiddlers British informal a very small fish … English dictionary
tiddler — A word used by British children for the stickleback, a very small fish found in both fresh and salt water, a favourite objective in the fishing expeditions of young children. The term is applied by adults to a small child, and by children to a … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
Tiddler (disambiguation) — Tiddler can refer to:* A British English and Australian English word that can mean: ** a small fish (specifically, the stickleback); ** a human child of either sex; ** any small object * Tiddler, the basic component of a TiddlyWiki. * Tiddler, a… … Wikipedia
tiddler — noun Etymology: probably from English dialect tiddly little Date: 1885 British a small fish (as a stickleback or minnow) … New Collegiate Dictionary
tiddler — a small fish … Dictionary of ichthyology
tiddler — noun a) A small person b) A small fish, especially a stickleback … Wiktionary
