1) Tiddler is a British term for youngsters.

2) On a world scale the earthquake was a tiddler.

3) If they were tiddlers he always threw them back.

4) The tiddlers of the aerospace world are also expanding.

5) Tiddler is a British term for youngster.

6) His tongue regularly darted out of his mouth and flicked this way and that along his lips like a tiddler under water.

7) But Schefenacker, with total debts of euro429m, was a tiddler next to British Energy.

8) Exxon may be the world's biggest listed company by market capitalisation, but it is a tiddler beside the National Iranian Oil Company or Saudi Aramco (see chart).

9) If it was a meteor, it was a mere tiddler by historic standards – as we'll see.