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tidbit

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tid·bit  (tdbt) also tit·bit (tt-)
n.
A choice morsel, as of gossip or food: "The book is chock-full of colorful tidbits about theater and theater people" Alec Guinness.
[Perhaps obsolete and dialectal tid, tender + bit1.]
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Noun1.tidbittidbit - a small tasty bit of food            
choice morsel, titbit
dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat, delicacy - something considered choice to eat
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The labyrinthodon evidently thought that Ja was coming to double his portion of human flesh, so he was in no haste to pursue me to the cliff and frighten away this other tidbit.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one-- there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
This is the tidbit which tempts his insectivorous fate.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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