tiddler
noun
tid·dler
| \ ˈti-dᵊl-ər
, ˈtid-lər\
, ˈtid-lər\
Definition of tiddler
1
British
: a small fish (such as a stickleback or minnow)
Children paddle and fish for tiddlers near the riverside church at Loose in Kent.— Stuart Verrells
2
British, informal
: a small person or thing
IBM, the world's biggest computer maker, has signed alliances with nearly 20 tiddlers to try to combine their innovation with its own prowess in marketing and customer service. — The Economist
Examples of tiddler in a Sentence
The company is no tiddler.
Recent Examples on the Web
And though the West Antarctic ice sheet is a tiddler compared with its eastern neighbour, its collapse would mean a GMSL rise of about 3.5 metres. — The Economist, "Climate change is a remorseless threat to the world’s coasts," 17 Aug. 2019 Its cargo airline, Amazon Air, is still a tiddler compared with FedEx, with just 33 jets in its fleet. — The Economist, "The global logistics business is going to be transformed by digitisation," 26 Apr. 2018 Canada’s corporate-bond market is a relative tiddler, with a total of 604 new bond issues in the past two years. — The Economist, "A Canadian startup applies machine-learning to corporate bond issuance," 10 May 2018 Most of these tiddlers are islands, some tiny, whose governments enjoy a rare platform offered by the Commonwealth for voicing their environmental worries, especially over climate change. — The Economist, "Is the Commonwealth a plausible substitute for the EU?," 12 Apr. 2018 If Enceladus is a tiddler among moons, Titan is a whopper. — The Economist, "AstronomyAfter exploring Saturn, Cassini faces a fiery end," 7 Sep. 2017 BRITAIN’S fishing industry is a tiddler, contributing less than 0.1% of GDP. — The Economist, "A spat about seafood shows the compromises that Brexit will force," 5 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tiddler.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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tiddler
noun
English Language Learners Definition of tiddler
British, informal
: a small fish
: a small and unimportant person or thing
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