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whiddle en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (slang) To inform on someone.
    • He said he only wanted one thing — if I'd chuck Gursey out again, in case he went whiddling to the colonel. 2003, Brian Penton, The Inheritors, page 475:
  2. (obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) To shine.
    • Old Noll is whiddling bright, / The dull world is asleep, / 'Tis a high spiced Toby night, / Let's in our saddles leap; […] 1845, Lincoln Fortescue, The Life and Adventures of Jack Sheppard, page 429:
    • OLIVER WHIDDLES: The moon shines. According to his physical description in the Black Books, Oliver whiddled on Hugh Smith's left arm. 2019, Simon Barnard, James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
whiddles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
whiddled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
whiddled Tense=Past lexicographic
whiddling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Descendants

chwidlo