tiddle

English

From a variant of tidder. See tid.

tiddle (third-person singular simple present tiddles, present participle tiddling, simple past and past participle tiddled)

(transitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To treat tenderly; to pet; to nurse a young animal by hand.^[1]^[2]
Synonyms: dawt, faddle, grope, pettle
(intransitive, obsolete or UK dialect) To potter about; to do something idly.
(childish, UK) To urinate.
Synonyms: piddle, widdle
- 2007, Jeanne Willis, Who's in the Bathroom?‎^[1]:
  Is it a tiger who needed to tiddle?
  A wandering wombat who needed to widdle?
  A waddling penguin too frozen to piddle?