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▪ I. widdle, n.1 Sc. and north. dial.|ˈwɪd(ə)l|
Also widdil, wuddle.
[app. f. widdle v.1]
Commotion, bustle; disturbance, trouble; strife, contention.
1786Burns Ep. to Major Logan iii, To cheer you through the weary widdle O' this wild warl'. 1825Jamieson s.v., They had a widdil thegither. 1847J. Halliday Rustic Bard 326 This wearifu' world's a wuddle o' care.
▪ II. widdle, n.2 colloq.|ˈwɪd(ə)l|
[Echoic: cf. piddle n., wee n.2, and widdle v.3]
An act of urination.
1954J. Pudney Smallest Room 36 The wee-wee, the widdle, the pee-pee, and the piddle. 1969D. Clarke Nobody's Perfect iii. 77, I hardly ever saw him unless I..wanted a widdle. 1977A. Coren Lady from Stalingrad Mansions 63 Love is..mekkin' sure yer betrothed 'as a pensionable position wi' luncheon vouchers an' gets out of 'is bath when he wants a widdle.
▪ III. † widdle, v.1 Sc. Obs.
Forms: 6 wid(d)ill, widle, 7 widdle.
[Origin obscure.]
1. trans. To invoke or inflict a curse upon: = curse v. 2, 5.
1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 63 Quha brekis the secund command?..thai that..wariis, bannis and widdillis thair saule..for ony vaine mater. Ibid., Thai that will nocht chasteis..thair barnis fra lesingis, sweiring, banning and widling. a1568in Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club) 385/29 The hennis of Hadingtoun sensyne wald nocht lay, For this wyld wilroun wich thame widlit sa and wareit. a1585Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 250 Like Dido, Cupido I widill and warye.
2. To beguile, to lead astray.
1697Cleland Poems 80 It's Antichrist his Pipes and Fidles, And other Tools, wherewith he Widdles Poor Caitiffs into dark delusions.
▪ IV. widdle, v.2 Sc. and north. dial.
Also 9 wuddle.
[Parallel to waddle.]
intr. To move slowly and irregularly; to waddle; to wriggle; fig. to work slowly and laboriously; to get through something in spite of difficulties or hindrances. Also widdle-waddle v., and † adv., with a waddling or unsteady movement.
1660in W. W. Wilkins Pol. Ball. (1860) I. 160 But Noll, a rank rider, gets first in the saddle,..She quickly perceiv'd that he rode widdle-waddle. 1808in Jamieson. 1844Whitelaw's Bk. Sc. Song 268/2 We hope to wuddle through Life's linked and ravelled clew. 1864W. D. Latto Tam. Bodkin xiii, Her mind was..engrossed wi' thochts o' her bit laddie, an' hoo he wad widdle through the warl'. 1886Cunliffe Gloss. Rochdale, Widdle-waddle, to walk from side to side, as a duck. 1890Service Notandums xix. 124, I aye like to be waunerin' aboot and widdlin' amang the beasts.
▪ V. widdle, v.3 colloq.|ˈwɪd(ə)l|
[f. as widdle n.2: cf. piddle v. 2.]
intr. To make water, to urinate. Hence ˈwiddling ppl. a.
[1956G. Durrell My Family & Other Animals xi. 143 Larry's suggestion that [the puppies]..be called Widdle and the Puke was greeted with disgust by Mother. ]1968Listener 13 June 785/2 Work is a Four-Letter Word, with its short-term expedients (including some inferior pop music and a widdling dog), is grimly unrisible. 1970‘R. Gordon’ Doctor on Boil ii. 15 From some of the receptacles you physicians produce, you seem to imagine a camel could widdle through the eye of a needle. 1974‘D. Meiring’ President Plan xii. 95 Martinez was practically widdling with excitement. 1983W. Harriss Bay Psalm Bk. Murder ix. 82 He headed straight for me... I damn near widdled.
▪ VI. widdle
variant of whiddle, to peach. |