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prettygoodwordtiddler (TID-lr) - (UK, informal) n., a very small fish, esp. a stickleback or minnow; a small person, esp. a child.
First noticed in the 1880s, apparently from dialect tittlebat, a childish variant of stickleback influenced by tiddly, small. A word in US English from that same root is the game tiddlywinks.
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First noticed in the 1880s, apparently from dialect tittlebat, a childish variant of stickleback influenced by tiddly, small. A word in US English from that same root is the game tiddlywinks.
---L.
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Date: 2024-09-22 08:56 pm (UTC)I didn't know this one at all! What a great word
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Date: 2024-09-23 02:56 pm (UTC)