twiddlesome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"Our physical anthropologists are keeping up with the twiddlesome technology of the physicists and chemists, while sticking to their own lasts."
"But it’s doomed, alas, like all attempts to hypnotise the play-goer with twiddlesome tricks."

From twiddle + -some.

more twiddlesome (comparative) most twiddlesome (superlative)

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