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🐦 To sing high notes 🎸 To play lightly 🪗 To attract with music
to tweedle

to tweedle

9.5
To sing or play a series of high notes that change and repeat
  • verb
  • /ˈtwidəl/
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  • The canary began to tweedle happily every morning at sunrise.

Examples

  • She loves to tweedle melodies on her flute as the sun sets.

  • Can you hear the birds tweedling outside?

  • A small group of songbirds tweedled in the branches above our heads.

  • The bird tweedled happily in the morning.

  • The canary began to tweedle happily every morning at sunrise.

  • A small group of songbirds tweedled in the branches above our heads.

  • She loves to tweedle melodies on her flute as the sun sets.

Synonyms

to chirp
vsto tweedle
34 1.0

To make a short, high sound like a small bird, insect, or electronic device

produce a series of modulated high notes with trills or variations

How High-Pitched

to trill
  • Specialized
2 7.2
chirp
18 1.6
to tweedle
9.5
twitter
1 3.9
to warble
7 7.8

Surface Forms

tweedle infinitive
tweedled past
tweedled past participle
tweedling present participle
tweedles third person singular

Etymology

Tweedle is an old sound-making word that copies short, high bird notes, much like the modern word tweet. So to tweedle is to 'sing' or make a series of small, high musical sounds.