What's the difference between tiddle and toddle?

Tiddle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To use with tenderness; to fondle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "You see all sorts of people in back alleys and streets tiddling up walls and it's not acceptable.

Toddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
  • (n.) A toddling walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So off he toddled with his bindle-stick to play at running away, taking refuge at Sally's house.
  • (2) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
  • (3) Thank you, thank you,” he says, then dictates into my tape recorder: “‘You’re a fuckin’ star,’ she says walking by, an attractive young woman in burgundy jeans.” Is there a danger that he’ll lead the masses up the hill, then toddle off to Hollywood and give up on the revolution?
  • (4) Already, my toddling cousins – the people we call "digital natives" today – would pose in front of my phone and make clicking sounds: smart enough to understand what phones should be able to do; stupid enough that they could not see mine was not fit for purpose.
  • (5) She was just standing by the big sash window in her bedroom when she spotted Mrs Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens unguarded.
  • (6) At the Christmas family gathering that year, Grandfather deemed any and all children present who were old enough to walk instead of toddle therefore old enough to sing a carol, recite a poem, and drink a cup of kindness made with brandy, cinnamon, and apples.
  • (7) Updated at 5.50pm BST 5.39pm BST Amid lots of yelping and squealing by idlers on the side of the road, the riders toddle around Versailles.
  • (8) The brands bang on as though they are philanthropists rather than brands seeking to lock down kids as consumers as soon as they can toddle to the pretend bank.
  • (9) Led by her exasperated mother, she toddles in coughing and spluttering helplessly into the doctor’s face.
  • (10) Despite its subject, the short story is funny and thought-provoking, based on the real event when Mantel actually spotted Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens of the Windsor flat she lived in.
  • (11) Like an anxious parent unwilling to trust the house to a teenage son, Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has told Mario Balotelli that he can't risk leaving him behind when he toddles off to the World Cup.
  • (12) She's going to walk along the line with her thank you and bye-bye, then toddle round the side, duck into a limo and she's away.
  • (13) Manager news now and filling Steve McClaren’s shoes at Newcastle will be Rafa Benítez , who’ll keep the Magpies up before toddling off in the summer and paving the way for either David Moyes or Brendan Rodgers (or maybe even both) to take up the reins.
  • (14) The child, rescued from the trafficker, is now toddling around outside the house in just a nappy.
  • (15) Sure, Oxford mathematicians could toddle off to Barclays Capital.
  • (16) 9.18pm GMT 75 min: Neuer has to toddle out of his box against to reach a short back pass.
  • (17) Mitt Romney's merry world tour toddles on today with a visit to Poland.

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