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  • "My little cup brims with tiddles."

    Citation: Nabokov, Vladimir. _The Annotated Lolita_. 1955. Ed. Alfred Appel, Jr. New York, Vintage, 1991. 20.

    The OED has no love for Nabokov. They list "tiddle" as a verb but not as a noun.

    When I first read the word, I thought it referred to tiddlywink, but when I finally got around to looking it up on my third trip through _Lolita_, I realized it was probably directly related to two definitions of the verb tiddle:

    1) To fondle or indulge to excess; to pet, pamper; to tend carefully, nurse, cherish.

    2) To make water, to urinate.

    A cupful of piss, a cupful of molestation. That sounds exactly like Humbert Humbert to me.

    October 21, 2007

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