twiddlesome
English
Etymology
From
twiddle
+
-some
.
Adjective
twiddlesome
(
comparative
more
twiddlesome
,
superlative
most
twiddlesome
)
Charactersied or marked by
twiddling
;
trifling
1977
,
Annual Review of Anthropology
, volume 6, page 9:
Our physical anthropologists are keeping up with the
twiddlesome
technology of the physicists and chemists, while sticking to their own lasts.
2012
, Lloyd Evans,
There will be blood
:
But it’s doomed, alas, like all attempts to hypnotise the play-goer with
twiddlesome
tricks.
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