twiddler

English

Etymology

From twiddle +‎ -er.

Noun

twiddler (plural twiddlers)

1. One who twiddles.
   • 2018, Jack Lewis, The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN:

     These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens.

Derived terms

• knob-twiddler