tiddle

verb — 3 senses

verb

Etymology From a variant of tidder. See tid.

UK, Dialectal, Obsolete To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.

UK, Dialectal, Obsolete To potter about; to do something idly.

UK, Childish To urinate.

Is it a tiger who needed to tiddle? A wandering wombat who needed to widdle? A waddling penguin too frozen to piddle?2007, Jeanne Willis, Who's in the Bathroom?:

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