tweedle

[ tweed-l ]

/ ˈtwid l /

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verb (used without object), twee·dled, twee·dling.

to produce high-pitched, modulated sounds, as a singer, bird, or musical instrument.

to perform lightly upon a musical instrument.

verb (used with object), twee·dled, twee·dling.

to lure by or as by music: The Pied Piper tweedled the children into following him.

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Origin of tweedle

First recorded in 1675–85; imitative

Hyder iddle diddle dell, A yard of pudding is not an ell; Not forgetting tweedle-dye, A tailor's goose will never fly.
The Book of Humorous Verse|Various
It was clearly more than the difference twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2)|Charles Creighton
Mrs. Tweedle told me not to come home without bringing your story.
That Fortune|Charles Dudley Warner
Who would complete the pair by being Tweedle-dee 105 no one had been able to coax from her.
A Dixie School Girl|Gabrielle E. Jackson

The Frenchman, after passing the suburbs, took out his violin and amused himself with humming to his own tweedle-tweedle.
Arthur Mervyn|Charles Brockden Brown