whiddle
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]whiddle (third-person singular simple present whiddles, present participle whiddling, simple past and past participle whiddled)
- (slang) To inform on someone.
- 2003, Brian Penton, The Inheritors, page 475:
- He said he only wanted one thing — if I'd chuck Gursey out again, in case he went whiddling to the colonel.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary