Thread: Tid Bits
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Old Thu Mar 23, 2006, 02:22pm
cmckenna cmckenna is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
You guys are silly.

Now...again....what's a "tid" in a tidbit? Inquiring minds need to know.
NOUN:


A choice morsel, as of gossip or food: "The book is chock-full of colorful tidbits about theater and theater people" (Alec Guinness).
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps obsoleteand dialectal tid, tender + bit 1
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