tidbit

• titbit (Commonwealth)

From tid (“fond, tender, nice”) +‎ bit (“morsel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪd.bɪt/, [ˈtʰɪd̚.bɪt̚]

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

tidbit (plural tidbits) (American spelling)

1. A tasty morsel (of food).
2. A short item of news, gossip, or information.
   • 2021 April 21, Daniel Dale, “Fact-checking Nancy Mace’s claim that DC wouldn’t ‘qualify’ as a single congressional district”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In the congressional apportionment that followed the 1910 census, the average district had 210,328 people, according to the Census Bureau. We make note of this historical tidbit simply to emphasize the obvious fact that DC’s current population is far greater than the population of many of the districts of generations past.

   • 2021 August 20, Brian Lowry, “‘Gossip’ charts how tabloid tattlers ‘escaped from their cages’ and rippled through the media”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     “Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular.