Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🎭 A story character 🧩 Trivial or petty 🤪 A foolish person
Tweedledee

Tweedledee

4 9.0
A made-up twin character in a Lewis Carroll story who pairs with Tweedledum
  • proper noun
  • /ˈtwidəlˌdi/
  • Literature
translation icon : Tweedledee
  • Tweedledee smiled gently and began again.
  • said Tweedledee

Examples

  • Then Tweedledee and Tweedledum can load them up into your little clown car.

    Free Fire (2017)

  • Tweedledum and Tweedledee... which, if either, is it going to be?

    Star! (1968)

  • - Why the hell were Tweedledee and Tweedledum here?

    The Misadventures of Mistress Maneater (2020)

  • Here comes Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

    Hall Pass (2011)

  • When it is a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, you have to have some way to make up your mind.

    Blog text (20)

  • We can't always be Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

    Up the Sandbox (1972)

  • Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

    Titanic (1953)

  • ♪ Tweedledum and Tweedledee ♪ ♪ Agreed to have a battle ♪ ♪ For Tweedledum said Tweedledee ♪ ♪ Had spoiled his nice new rattle ♪

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)

  • He resembled nothing so much as an old illustration of Tweedledee from Alice in Wonderland: prism-shaped, with a wide mouth and large, moist eyes magnified by thick glasses.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Here comes Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

Compounds

Tweedledee and Tweedledum
9.7

Two people who look and behave almost the same and are hard to tell apart

Tweedledum and Tweedledee
9.5

Two people who look very alike and are hard to tell apart

Surface Forms

Tweedledee main

Etymology

Tweedledee is the name of a character made famous by Lewis Carroll in the book Through the Looking-Glass and comes from an older nursery rhyme, where he appears with Tweedledum. They are 'nearly identical' and always together, which is why the name refers to one of two matching characters.