tweedles
Pipes shrill notes
Tweedles is the third person singular of tweedle, meaning to produce a series of light, warbling sounds—what a bird or flute might do: A robin tweedled outside the window.
To tweedle can also mean to coax or manipulate with gentle persuasion.
The word is uncommon outside of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the mirror-image characters from *Through the Looking-Glass*.
Rapid pitch alternations
- warblesSings with vibrato
- chirpsBrief high-pitched cries
- pipesCylindrical fluid carriers
- flutesTubular wind instruments
whistles · sings · tweets · lilts · twitters · melody · birdcall · notes
trills
Rapid pitch alternations
flutes · whistles · sings · tweets · lilts · twitters · melody · birdcall · notes · hums
Carroll
Dodgson pseudonym
mirror · doubles · looking-glass · nursery · rhyme · contraries · opposites · identical · bickering · squabbling
tinkers
Meddles amateurishly with mechanisms
dawdles · putters · meddles · twiddles · fidgets · adjusts · plays · tampers · handles · fingers