Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A choice morsel, as of gossip or food: "The book is chock-full of colorful tidbits about theater and theater people” ( Alec Guinness).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as titbit.
Wiktionary
- n. A tasty morsel (of food, gossip etc.)
- n. computing, informal A quarter of a byte (Half of a nibble).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small tasty bit of food
Etymologies
- Perhaps obsolete and dialectal tid, tender + bit1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In all honesty – Really think this tidbit is a waste of space.”
“Thank you and what a lovely giftie to start off our New Year with this short but oh so hot tidbit from the next installment ....”
“Also interesting tidbit from a recent presentation summary about data from Denmark (in 2009 there were 5 traffic deaths in Copenhagen):”
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“Here's a fun little tidbit from the Urban Dictionary:”
“Another tidbit from a failed National Healthcare system izoneguy”
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“Based off of this tidbit from the MS download site, I'm going to wait a week or so for the furor to die down: You don't need to rush to get the RC.”
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“The last little tidbit is something that may move you to the top of the list for those appreciative producers trying to fill an opening from a last-minute cancellation.”
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“I don't think that tidbit is going to get me a raise, but the ability to get to the heart of a problem and not get stuck at the edges is a skill (derived from the class lectures) that most certainly will.”
“I got a kick out of this little tidbit from the 'theology of science fiction' article;”
“For aficionados of rich-people-being-naughty stories, there's this delicious tidbit from the story by Scott Reckard and Kim Christensen: The pilot of a private plane taking Nicholas and guests from Orange County to Las Vegas had to put on an oxygen mask because they smoked so much marijuana.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tidbit’.
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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lanas's Words
serendipitous, insouciant, charming, sanguine, dear, odd, quaint, small, tremble, blush, flirt, tryst and 248 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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quaint
quaint little words i wish to collect in a woven basket and frolic about with
dapper, tidbit, tubthump, aloof, hullabaloo, tintinnabulum, bungalow, flounder, embiggen, turnip, befreckle, thimble
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Kneeedeeep!
Words that resemble the calls of frogs, toads and other garrulous amphibians. It helps if you say them a few times. And crouch down. Elbows out. With a fly on your tongue.
knee deep, rhetoric, coquí, robot, wart, ribizli, laklak, divot, bedebt, brekekekex, tidbit, pogrom and 7 more...
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yay
lantern, defenestrate, incognito, tidbit, shiny, chinois, fenêtre, muggy, muffin, nifty, happy, sharpie and 19 more...
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to be named later
django, mimeo, hopkins, patata, milkwood, tigre, chicory, hominy, galway, mao, cinder, fennel and 12 more...
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Name Suggestions for Ultra-Compact Cars
A companion list to Name Suggestions for Even Bigger SUVs and Trucks. :-)
Sounds best when you preface each word with "the."speck, iota, minute, mote, dot, jot, mite, molecule, particle, smidgen, morsel, scintilla and 64 more...
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