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: a choice morsel of food
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: a choice or pleasing bit (as of information)
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Examples of tidbit in a Sentence
I just heard a juicy tidbit about your brother.
gave her an expensive box of chocolate tidbits
Recent Examples of tidbit from the Web
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Fact/tidbit /piece of news learned from OTAs/minicamp: Based on minicamp, Brady and Gronkowski haven’t lost a step.
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Another interesting tidbit: I was shocked by how much national interest the recall of Judge Aaron Persky in Santa Clara County received.
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Earlier this month, Ancestry’s chief competitor in the genetic genealogy game, 23andMe, filed a lawsuit in California federal district court, alleging that Ancestry infringed on its patented method for identifying relatives from tidbits of DNA.
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Other tidbits from the opening weekend: STRONG START: Phoenix beat both Dallas and Seattle to improve to 2-0 for the fifth time in franchise history.
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In an interview with The Australian, Sir William Heseltine, one of the Queen’s private secretaries, revealed an interesting tidbit of palace life.
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Maybe avoiding those tidbits of information were agreed to prior to the Dolphins allowing Yahoo.com that unprecedented access, which is logical.
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From the night's highest-profile nominees to essential tidbits of Oscar history, there's plenty of trivia that movie fans can catch up on before the awards.
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Mothers, daughters, grandmothers and friends are invited to an afternoon of tea and tidbits about Barbie.
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Origin and Etymology of tidbit
perhaps from tit- (as in titmouse) + bit
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First Known Use: circa 1640
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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TIDBIT Defined for Kids
1
: a small tasty piece of food
2
: a small interesting but unimportant bit (as of news)
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