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- Dictionarydiddle/ˈdɪdl/
verb
- 1. cheat or swindle (someone) so as to deprive them of something: informal "he thought he'd been diddled out of his change"
- 2. pass time aimlessly or unproductively: informal North American "I felt sorry for her, diddling around in her room while her friends were having a good time"
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DIDDLE definition: 1. to get money from someone in a way that is not honest: 2. to work with something in a way that…. Learn more.
The meaning of DIDDLE is to move with short rapid motions. How to use diddle in a sentence.
Diddle definition: to cheat; swindle; hoax.. See examples of DIDDLE used in a sentence.
Jun 10, 2024 · 4 meanings: informal 1. to cheat or swindle 2. → an obsolete word for dawdle 1. US vulgar, slang to have sexual intercourse.... Click for more definitions.
DIDDLE meaning: 1. to get money from someone in a way that is not honest: 2. to work with something in a way that…. Learn more.
Definition of diddle verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. To shake rapidly; jiggle. 2. Slang To play experimentally; toy: The children diddled with the knobs on the television all afternoon. 3. Slang To waste time: diddled around all morning. [Probably alteration of dialectal didder, to quiver, tremble, from Middle English dideren, variant of daderen, doderen; see dodder1 .]
Definitions of diddle. verb. manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination. synonyms: fiddle, play, toy. see more. verb. (offensive) deprive of by deceit. synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, gip, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, shortchange, swindle, victimize. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Diddle."
Definitions of 'diddle' 1. If someone diddles, they waste time and do not achieve anything. [US, informal] [...] 2. If someone diddles you, they take money from you dishonestly or unfairly. [mainly British, informal] [...] More. Pronunciations of 'diddle' American English: dɪdəl British English: dɪdəl. More. Conjugations of 'diddle'
Origin of Diddle. From dialectal duddle, "to trick" (16th century), "to totter" (17th century); perhaps influenced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803). Meaning "to have sex with" is from the 19th century, "to masturbate" is 1950's.
