Meaning of Tweedle-dum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fictional little fat man who is the twin brother of Tweedle-dee and appears in multiple artistic works, including certain nursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.
2. One of a pair (the other of the pair being Tweedle-dee) of nominally different (often: but practically identical) things.

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Examples

“Some ſay, compar’d to Bononcini, / That Mynheer Handel’s but a Ninny; / Others aver, that he to Handel / Is ſcarcely fit to hold a Candle: / Strange all this Difference ſhould be, / ’Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!”

“How can we get the tweedle-dums and the tweedle-dees together for united action in the interests of the masses of the people?”

“Suppose we have any axiom of the form: (2) For every Tweedledee there is a Tweedledum R-related to it. Axioms of the form (2) cut two ways. They can be construed as putting a limit on the Tweedledees: only those exist for which there is an R-related Tweedledum. On the other hand, they can be seen as postulating the existence of a rich collection of Tweedledums. There are so many of them that there is at least one R-related to every single Tweedledee.”

“"She can't tell a Tweedle-dum from a Tweedle-dee."”

“Tweedledum’s chum stood with his hand resting lightly on the back of her arm, as if to turn her away from some potentially corrupting sight. [...] I stood my ground, smiled, and introduced myself. "I'm looking for Timothy Butler. That must be you." [...] I calmed down enough to notice that Timothy Butler was clenching and unclenching his right hand in an effort at self-control. Tweedledum noticed it too. She rushed to his defense.”

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