Antonyms for twiddle

Grammar : Verb

Spell : twid-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtwɪd l

Definition of twiddle

Origin : 1540s, "to trifle," of unknown origin; of the fingers, first recorded 1670s. Figurative phrase twiddle one's thumbs "have nothing to do" is recorded from 1846; to twirl one's thumbs in the same sense is recorded from 1816. Related: Twiddled; twiddling.

verb fiddle

Example sentences :

A man who has been active hates 270 to sit down and twiddle his thumbs.
Extract from : « The Place of Honeymoons » by Harold MacGrath

Then I did remember more or less, while Hans continued to twiddle the hat.
Extract from : « The Ivory Child » by H. Rider Haggard

I twiddle your little good Andrew to assert it for us twenty times a day.
Extract from : « Evan Harrington, Complete » by George Meredith

Get under the pilot an' sort o' twiddle ye off the track, don't they?
Extract from : « The Day's Work, Volume 1 » by Rudyard Kipling

Waiting the answer, he joined his hands, and began to twiddle his thumbs.
Extract from : « The Wandering Jew, Complete » by Eugene Sue

And the rest of us are to sit and twiddle our thumbs while you soliloquize?
Extract from : « The Idiot at Home » by John Kendrick Bangs

On the other side he could twiddle his fingers at the corporal, who dared not pursue.
Extract from : « The Sheriff of Badger » by George B. Pattullo

And I think, by then, she'll be able to twiddle over them wires by herself.'
Extract from : « The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) » by Fanny Burney

They simply reach into our minds and twiddle around and—zoop!
Extract from : « The Slizzers » by Jerome Bixby

We his tools, when the silly ass hasn't wits to twiddle his own thumbs?
Extract from : « Cardigan » by Robert W. Chambers

Synonyms for twiddle

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