The word "tweedle" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as an informal form of address, such as in the phrase "Tweedle, what do you think?".
Hitchcock's wife and script doctor, Alma, played by Helen Mirren, goes for a spin in a convertible with a male friend to "Tweedle Dee," a bouncy bit of fifties folderol ("Jiminy cricket, jiminy jack, / You make my heart go clickety-clack").
And who doesn't love the word TWEEDLE?
Tweedle Dum (Paula James and Tweedle Dee John Holt Robertsts) are a couple of school bullies; the White Rabbit (Jack Quarton) is the exam-room invigilator, anxious to ensure that pupils will not be late.
I remembered this old nickname while sitting in traffic on Peachtree, watching SUVs crawl along, listening to speakers tweedle and rumble with crunk, snap, neo soul and trap – hip-hop is Atlanta's soundtrack and biggest cultural export.
Farkle's search prompts the reader to clang, tweedle and blare along the way, making sounds as required.
A single-party government – dare I say it – run by these two old Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee parties got us into trouble in the first place.
Or perhaps, tweedling between the cricket scores and a complicated symphony on Radio 3, he accidentally rolled past a two-for-one ticket offer on the sort of station I listen to.
All the more charming with a cup of Gimme coffee in my hand and a little Beirut clamorously tweedling on the iPod.
If it weren't for Doug Hoffmann, a Lake Placid accountant running on the Conservative Party line, the battle to represent New York's 23rd Congressional District would have been a Tweedle-Dee-Tweedle-Dum affair, featuring a Republican, Dede Scozzafava, who's arguably more liberal than her Democratic opponent, Bill Owens.
In Old Bethpage at the Cultural Arts Playhouse, Old Bethpage Road, "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" will be performed at 12 30 p.m. today, 1 p.m. Saturday and noon and 2 p.m. Tuesday, and "Meet the Tweedles: Star Trip, Blue Brothers in Space" at 2 p.m. Thursday and 4 p.m. Saturday (516) 694-3330.
They also share vibes with duos as various as Huck and Jim, Bonnie and Clyde, Vladimir and Estragon, and the Tweedles Dum and Dee.
