Usually means: Adjust slightly; fiddle with fingers.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word twiddle:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. twiddle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. twiddle: Merriam-Webster
  3. twiddle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. twiddle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. twiddle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. twiddle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Twiddle, twiddle: Wordnik
  8. twiddle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. twiddle: Wiktionary
  10. twiddle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. twiddle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. twiddle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. twiddle: Dictionary.com
  14. twiddle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. twiddle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Twiddle (band), Twiddle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Twiddle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. twiddle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. twiddle: Rhymezone
  20. Twiddle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. twiddle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. twiddle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. twiddle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. twiddle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. twiddle: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. twiddle: CCI Computer
  3. twiddle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twiddle: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Twiddle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. twiddle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Twiddle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See twiddled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
verb:  (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
noun:  A slight twist with the fingers.
noun:  A wiggling movement.
noun:  A small decorative embellishment.
noun:  A small musical flourish.
noun:  A tilde.
noun:  A drawn line that is curvy or twisted.
noun:  A tiny bit.
noun:  A tizzy.

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