verb, noun
verb (BrE) ~ (with) sth to twist or turn sth with your fingers often because you are nervous or bored:
[V] He twiddled with the radio knob until he found the right programme. * [VN] She was twiddling the ring on her finger.
IDIOMS
twiddle your thumbs
1 to move your thumbs around each other with your fingers joined together, because you are bored or waiting for sth
2 to do nothing while you are waiting for sth to happen
Part of speech: noun
1 (BrE) a twist or turn:
a twiddle of the knob
2 a decorative twist in a pattern, piece of music, etc:
twiddles on the clarinet
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