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tiddler

Sep. 17th, 2024 07:33 am
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tiddler (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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