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A very small fish — especially the tiny ones a child catches in a stream or pond with a net and a jar. It is a British word, informal and rather , and it belongs to childhood: you would use it about the little fish in a school pond, not about anything you would eat or sell. From there it stretches easily: British people also call a very small child a tiddler, and, in business or sport, a very small company or team competing against big ones ("a tiddler taking on the giants"). In all of these the tone is warm or slightly , never cruel — a tiddler is small, not worthless. American English does not really use the word.
小魚(小到只能撈著玩的那種);引申指小不點、小公司
組成Probably related to tiddly, an informal British word meaning tiny. The -er ending makes it a name for a thing that is like that.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tiddlernoun
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informalA small person.
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informalA small fish, especially a stickleback.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。