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tiddler
noun- any small fish UK, 1885
Originally applied to a stickleback. - MINI FISH NET with wire rim to fit exactly in mess tin bottom (used to catch tiddlers under dinghy). — Zeek, The Art of Sheng Ku, p. 19, 2001
- anything small; a child, a small animal, a small drink, etc. UK, 1927
- But even a small asteroid – the size of a house, say – could destroy a city. The number of these relative tiddlers in Earth-crossing orbits is almost certainly in the hundreds of thousands[.] — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, p. 194, 2003
- any small coin (of size rather than denomination) UK, 1966
- Even a little tiddler like the five centavo coin comes into its own[.] — Time Out Buenos Aires, 2001
- a player of tiddleywinks US, 1958
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