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twiddly

a. 1 (cx informal English) Capable of being finely or idly adjusted with the fingers. 2 (cx informal English) Having an elaborately twisted form. 3 (cx informal English) In music, having a rapid series of musical notes.

Usage examples of "twiddly".

Baldock was pacing about among her pretty floral chairs and little twiddly tables.

Rearing behind those were bowls, tureens, urns, and complicated twiddly candlesticks, most of them enormous.

Cuthcott in a twiddly chair, surrounded by sheets of paper reposing on the floor, shining like autumn leaves on a pool of water.

There was a burst of applause for Alastair Greig who had just completed a twiddly bit on his squeeze box.

I could have analysed my thoughts by the use of square brackets, round brackets, twiddly brackets, and the rest, all properly set out in order so that a Common Fool could follow them.

Yam and could not help feeling he looked indecent with all those silver twiddly works showing.

And then I put a lot of twiddly bits, trills, cadenzas and runs, to imitate the piping of the drum and fife band.

She came in low across the city, across the twiddly turrets and elaborate arches of Bardic College on its outskirts, and around in a great sweep over the lake.

Shortly afterwards, he received an answer written on a page torn from an exercise book, in a twiddly hand, the sentences liberally interspersed with exclamation-marks that looked like caraway-seeds sprinkled on a bun, and the whole ornamented with tear blots.

Spark Lord made a twiddly gesture with the last three fingers of her left hand.