twiddle your thumbs
Examples of twiddled
twiddled
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This is a simple thing, but for ten years, we have sat and
twiddled our thumbs.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
French spindles are
twiddled between the fingers of one hand instead.
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