tweedle

1. (transitive, obsolete) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle.Examples: "“Neaw, owd lad,” said he, as he screwed, first one peg, then another, and tweedled over little fits of wailing prelude, to get the tones he wanted."; "Hark, —his tortured catgut squals He tickles every string, to every note He bends his pliant neck.—The fond yielding Maid Is tweedled into Love."obsoletetransitive

2. (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.Examples: "A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service."; "But I tweedled him into letting you try, and here you are, a real member of the company."Synonyms: wheedlebroadlyobsoletetransitive

3. (UK, slang) To sell fake jewellery as genuine.Examples: "I am afraid that the knowing author of the “cracking a-crib” book would be flummoxed by tweedling."; "Girls, smokes, bit of smack, mossing, tweedling; a very democratic villain, Mr Salvatore."UKslang

4. (of two people) To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee)Examples: ""I shall feel myself a failure as a chaperone surely," remarked Mrs.Green. "We think you a tremendous success," tweedled the twins."; "“Why, they're tweedling now, " said little Frankie and sure enough they were, and tweedling in perfect unison too, without any expression whatsoever.“"; ""[…] cold storage,” soothed Page Allison. “Not a chance,” tweedled the twins."