tiddle

English

Etymology

From a variant of tidder. See tid.

Verb

tiddle (third-person singular simple present tiddles, present participle tiddling, simple past and past participle tiddled)

1. (transitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.

   Synonyms: dawt, faddle, grope, pettle

2. (intransitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To potter about; to do something idly.
3. (childish, UK) To urinate.

   Synonyms: piddle, widdle

   • 2007, Jeanne Willis, Who's in the Bathroom?‎^[1]:

     Is it a tiger who needed to tiddle?
     A wandering wombat who needed to widdle?
     A waddling penguin too frozen to piddle?