English Explanatory Dictionary

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Two persons or organizations deemed indistinguishable in some way.
  2. A pair of people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly.

Pronunciation

/ˌtwiːdəlˈdʌm ən ˌtwiːdəlˈdiː/

Word forms

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Etymology

From Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a pair of identical characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom.

Derived words

Tweedledum and Tweedledumber
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