TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE


Meaning of TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE in English

/tweed'l dum" euhn tweed'l dee"/

two persons or things nominally different but practically the same; a nearly identical pair.

[ 1715-25; humorous coinage, appar. first applied as nicknames to Giovanni Bononcini and Handel, with reference to their musical rivalry; see TWEEDLE ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .