0 to move something repeatedly between your fingers, especially without any purpose: --
2 to move something about between your fingers without giving it your attention: --
If we give it a great big twiddle, we can turn the results on their head.
They would take the action that was in their best national interest and twiddle with the rules later.
When they twiddle the dial they will have to listen to these stations because they will not receive anything else.
The best way of doing that is by ensuring that some people go across there, although they are against it and might twiddle their thumbs.
They will not sit and twiddle their thumbs waiting for the fish industry to recover.
Then we twiddle and, more often than not, all we get is twaddle or, to be more precise, nothing.
French spindles are twiddled between the fingers of one hand instead.
He was also fond of drawing hands with interlocked fingers, which looked as though the characters were twiddling their thumbs.
