Whittle vs Widdle - What's the difference?
whittle | widdle |
A knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife.
* Dryden
* Macaulay
* Betterton
(transitive, or, intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
(figurative) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
* Withals
(archaic) A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
(archaic) A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
(chiefly, British) To urinate
(colloquial) To play guitar fast. This is generally in reference to electric guitar.
(childish, chiefly, US) Little; used in imitation of childish speech.
As verbs the difference between whittle and widdle
is that whittle is to cut or shape wood with a knife while widdle is to urinate.As a noun whittle
is a knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife.As an adjective widdle is
little; used in imitation of childish speech.whittle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- A butcher's whittle .
- Rude whittles .
- He wore a Sheffield whittle in his hose.
Verb
(whittl)- When men are well whittled , their tongues run at random.
Derived terms
* whittle down * whittlingEtymology 2
From an (etyl) word for "white"; akin to an Icelandic word for a white bedcover.Noun
(en noun)- (Charles Kingsley)
