tidbit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small and especially tasty piece of food

   The cook saved a crisp tidbit of pastry for the child.

2. 2
   noun

   a small, interesting piece of news, gossip, or information

   The guide shared a historical tidbit about the old theatre.

Formed in the seventeenth century from tid, an obsolete adjective meaning 'choice, tender, or nice,' + bit. Tid-bit is the older hyphenated spelling. British English more often uses the altered form titbit; the information sense developed figuratively from a choice morsel of food.

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