tidbit
a delicate bit or morsel of food.
a choice or pleasing bit of anything, as news or gossip.
Origin of tidbit
1- Also especially British, tit·bit [tit-bit] /ˈtɪtˌbɪt/ .
Words Nearby tidbit
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How to use tidbit in a sentence
The seven remaining contests are all viewed as safe for one party or the other, but there are a few interesting tidbits worth mentioning.
11 States Are Choosing Their Governor On Tuesday. Here Are The Races To Watch. | Geoffrey Skelley (geoffrey.skelley@abc.com) | October 31, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightWithout this tidbit, the investigators might have overlooked some patients, allowing the infected to unknowingly continue transmitting the disease.
Meet the disease detectives fighting to understand COVID-19 | Eleanor Cummins | October 20, 2020 | Popular-ScienceEmbarrassing tidbits were doled out over a period of weeks by WikiLeaks, disrupting the Clinton campaign with distracting news stories.
Pence’s allegations about Hillary Clinton: A guide for the perplexed | Glenn Kessler | October 9, 2020 | Washington PostI draw out our conversation with small talk about medical school, Stanford, California weather—tidbits from Fox’s life that distract me, just briefly, from my own.
Before Jump starts any meal prep, he pulls some sort of tidbit out to tide everyone over.
The trove of documents did reveal one little tidbit of advice for Clinton if she runs for President in 2016.
What We Learned from 5,000 Pages of Hillary Clinton Documents | Ben Jacobs | March 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAny 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!
Petraeus Fever Paralyzes Washington as the Media Pounce on Sex Scandal | Howard Kurtz | November 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe juiciest Ryan tidbit to surface over the weekend, though, was put out there by Chris Hayes on his show yesterday.
Ryan and Romney and Taxes and Spending: Hypocrisy-Fest Continues | Michael Tomasky | August 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut 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.
Great Ghost Stories | VariousHe leaned over her tenderly; she fluttered her wings and opened her mouth, and he dropped into it the tidbit he had brought.
A Bird-Lover in the West | Olive Thorne MillerIt stands in the same relationship as a tidbit to an animal as a beaver's tail does to a trapper.
Mink Trapping | A. R. (Arthur Robert) HardingThat evening the flesh of the beavers went into the kettle, and their oily tails—the greatest tidbit of all—were fried in a pan.
Ungava Bob | Dillon WallaceHe was always on the watch for some extra tidbit—always rooting about to find some dainty that others had overlooked.
The Tale of Grunty Pig | Arthur Scott Bailey
British Dictionary definitions for tidbit
/ (ˈtɪdˌbɪt) /
the usual US spelling of titbit
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