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tidbit

[ tid-bit ]

noun

  1. a delicate bit or morsel of food.
  2. a choice or pleasing bit of anything, as news or gossip.


tidbit

/ ˈtɪdˌbɪt /

noun

  1. the usual US spelling of titbit


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tidbit1

First recorded in 1630–40; tide 1 (in sense “feast day”) + bit 2

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Example Sentences

The trove of documents did reveal one little tidbit of advice for Clinton if she runs for President in 2016.

Any way you look at it, though, an interesting tidbit to chew on.

Every conversation circles back to a scandalous tidbit: Jill Kelley and Gen. John Allen exchanged 30,000 emails!

The juiciest Ryan tidbit to surface over the weekend, though, was put out there by Chris Hayes on his show yesterday.

But then he added, in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper Wednesday, this jaw-dropping tidbit.

When it had finished its tidbit, the old man had also finished the packing up and putting away of his purchases.

He leaned over her tenderly; she fluttered her wings and opened her mouth, and he dropped into it the tidbit he had brought.

It stands in the same relationship as a tidbit to an animal as a beaver's tail does to a trapper.

That evening the flesh of the beavers went into the kettle, and their oily tails—the greatest tidbit of all—were fried in a pan.

He was always on the watch for some extra tidbit—always rooting about to find some dainty that others had overlooked.

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