twiddlesome
adjEtymology From twiddle + -some.
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Charactersied or marked by twiddling; trifling
- Our physical anthropologists are keeping up with the twiddlesome technology of the physicists and chemists, while sticking to their own lasts.1977, Annual Review of Anthropology, volume 6, page 9:
- But it’s doomed, alas, like all attempts to hypnotise the play-goer with twiddlesome tricks.2012, Lloyd Evans, There will be blood: