whiddle

verb — 2 senses

whiddle

verb
1

Slang To inform on someone.

  • He said he only wanted one thing — if I'd chuck Gursey out again, in case he went whiddling to the colonel.2003, Brian Penton, The Inheritors, page 475:
2

Obsolete To shine.

  • Old Noll is whiddling bright, / The dull world is asleep, / 'Tis a high spiced Toby night, / Let's in our saddles leap; […]1845, Lincoln Fortescue, The Life and Adventures of Jack Sheppard, page 429:
  • OLIVER WHIDDLES: The moon shines. According to his physical description in the Black Books, Oliver whiddled on Hugh Smith's left arm.2019, Simon Barnard, James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang:

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