英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwɪd(ə)li/

形容詞

twiddly (comparative twiddlier, superlative twiddliest)

1. (informal) Capable of being finely or idly adjusted with the fingers.
   • 2011, Fi Glover, Travels With My Radio: I Am An Oil Tanker:

     Radio – with its buttons and twiddly knobs and white noise in between – is on the tip of a huge wave of change, courtesy of the Internet.

   • 1915, John Galsworthy, The Freelands

     Through the open doorway Nedda could see […] the back of Mr. Cuthcott in a twiddly chair, surrounded by sheets of paper reposing on the floor, shining like autumn leaves on a pool of water.

2. (informal) Having an elaborately twisted form.
   • 1958, New Scientist

     The design of an indicator is often — indeed usually — thought to be the business of the engineer, perhaps aided by someone — an artist or a "stylist" — who adds an aesthetic touch, a twiddly bit, a strip of chromium, a dash of paint, or better still several dashes in clashing colours, of which a bilious yellow will be one.

   • 2010, Lawrence Zeegen, Complete Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Image-Making:

     Everyone has a computer, everyone has the same software, and everyone thinks they can stick a couple of butterflies onto a twiddly background and they have an illustration. They don't have an illustration; they have decoration.

   • 2011, Pamela Haines, Men on White Horses:

     It was her nose was the worst. It seemed to have been twisted into a hook with a twiddly bit at the top.

3. (informal) In music, having a rapid series of musical notes.
   • 2001 September 7, Kevin Whitehead, “The Gap Band”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     There are moments when the band sounds oddly like its acoustic predecessor, and there are some feints at free jazz, but the most curious episode, unlike any other live Miles I know, is a long spacey improvisation using wood flute, related less to the twiddly studio jams than to the ritual atmospherics of Chicago's creative-music vanguard.