TWEEDLEDEE

  

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TWEEDLEDEE

Date "TWEEDLEDEE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references)


Use in Literature: TWEEDLEDEE

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Through the Looking-Glass

Carroll, Lewis

TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: TWEEDLEDEE

Expressions using "TWEEDLEDEE": be as tweedledum and tweedledee tweedledee and Tweedledum tweedledum and tweedledee. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "TWEEDLEDEE": tweedledum-tweedledee.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TWEEDLEDEE

Language Translations for "TWEEDLEDEE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

krejt njëlloj (tweedledum and tweedledee). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏شخصان متشابهان. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

двойници (tweedledum and tweedledee). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

半斤八兩 (not much to choose between the two, tweedledum and tweedledee). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ugyanaz (ditto, do, homeo-, homoeo-, idem, identic, identical, just the same, one, same, selfsame, self-same, tweedledum and tweedledee, very). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eedledeetway

   

Russian 

  

двойники (tweedledum and tweedledee). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neznatna razlika (tweedledum and tweedledee). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

två likadana (tweedledum and tweedledee). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

birbirinin aynı iki şey (tweedledum and tweedledee), bir elmanın iki yarısı gibi benzemek (be as tweedledum and tweedledee). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TWEEDLEDEE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-e-e-l-t-w"

-2 letters: tweedled.

-3 letters: deleted, tweedle, wedeled.

-4 letters: delete, weeded, weeted, welded, welted.

-5 letters: deled, dewed, dwelt, etwee, tewed, tweed, wedel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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