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tidbit

UK/ˈtɪd.bɪt/US/ˈtɪd.bɪt/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,768 of 15,258mostly spoken

Other forms: tidbits

A tidbit is a small tasty piece of food or news. A tidbit of gossip, tasty tidbits, share a tidbit.

This is the American spelling; British writing has titbit, and both mean the same thing. It is used far more of information than of food now — a tidbit of news is the standard phrase. The tid is an old dialect word meaning tender.

Definitions of tidbit

  1. 1nountidbitA small tasty piece of food or news.B2+

    “The journalist shared a juicy tidbit about the singer's new boyfriend.”

tidbit is a small piece.

Also accepted in games: titbit

Where it comes from

From tid + bit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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tidbit in the wild

  • An interesting tidbit is this treatise contains the earliest written reference to the decimal point (though its usage would not come into general use for another century).

    Rabdology

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.