Word of the Day: TIDDY-IDDY

ETYMOLOGY
replication of tiddy (tiny, small)

EXAMPLE
“… In time came those maternal joys
Which take the form of girls or boys,
And strange to say of each they’d one –
A
tiddy iddy daughter, and a tiddy iddy son!…”

From: The “Bab” Ballads:
Much Sound and Little Sense
By W. S. Gilbert, 1869
Thomas Green and Harriet Hale.
To be Sung to the Air of “An ‘Orrible Tale”

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