Definitions
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- proper noun A fictional little fat
man who is the twin brother ofTweedle-dee and appears in multiple artisticworks , including certainnursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. - noun One of a pair (the other of the pair being
Tweedle-dee ) of nominally different (often: but practically identical) things.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum will be together this weekend, blonde and brunette, no doubt wearing tight dresses.
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Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee are too busy worrying about the things the kids in high schools worry about this time of year.
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The 'Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum' political parties have run out of time because voters have run out of patience.
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I am the same as you, Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum…….sorry.
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Perhaps Tweedle-dee is not so Tweedle-dum after all?
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Beverly was going as Tweedle-dum, her costume consisting of funny little ruffled trousers, a Lord Fauntleroy shirt, jacket and collar, her hair braided and tucked inside her waist and her head covered by a huge
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But neither Tweedle-dum nor Tweedle-dee enlightened the questioners.
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Jack had made for the very door Tweedle-dum had advised Tweedle-dee to make for and darted through it muttering as he paused a second to listen: "Gee, I wish I wasn't so confoundedly long legged!"
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"And what is right for Tweedle-dum is wrong for Tweedle-dee," sang Peggy in her sweet contralto voice, Polly following in her bird-like whistle.
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The fun was at its height, Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee had danced with every other goblin, the evening star included, though it must be confessed that Tweedle-dee had been unanimously pronounced the better leader by his partners, and Jack "almost as good as a boy; she was so strong and danced so divinely," though none had as yet guessed the identity of either.
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