l verb (used with object), did·dled, did·dling.
Informal. to cheat; swindle; hoax.
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verb (used without object)
1.
Informal. to toy; fool (usually followed by with ): The kids have been diddling with the controls on the television set again.
2.
to waste time; dawdle (often followed by around ): You would be finished by now if you hadn't spent the morning diddling around.
3.
Informal. to move back and forth with short rapid motions.
verb (used with object)
4.
Informal. to move back and forth with short rapid motions; jiggle: Diddle the switch and see if the light comes on.
5.
Slang.
a.
to copulate with.
b.
to practice masturbation upon.
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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diddle1 (ˈdɪdəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to cheat or swindle |
| 2. | (intr) an obsolete word for dawdle |
| [C19: back formation from Jeremy Diddler, a scrounger in J. Kenney's farce Raising the Wind (1803)] | |
| 'diddler1 | |
| —n | |
| diddle2 (ˈdɪdəl) | |
| —vb | |
| dialect to jerk (an object) up and down or back and forth; shake rapidly | |
| [C17: probably variant of doderen to tremble, totter; see | |
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Word Origin & History
diddle
"to cheat, swindle," 1806, from dial. duddle, diddle "to totter" (1632). Meaning "waste time" is recorded from 1825. Meaning "to have sex with" is from 1879; that of "to masturbate" (especially of women) is from 1950s. More or less unrelated meanings that have gathered around a suggestive sound.
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Slang Dictionary
diddle definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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diddle definition
1. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. "I diddled a copy of ADVENT so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away."
See tweak and twiddle.
2. The action or result of diddling.
See also tweak, twiddle, frob.
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