diddle

did·dle ¹  (ddl)

tr.v. did·dled, did·dling, did·dles

Slang To cheat; swindle: "The Swiss have special laws for people who diddle hotels" (John le Carré).

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[Perhaps akin to Old English dydrian, to deceive, or from variant of dialectal doodle, fool, simpleton; akin to Low German dudeldopp.]

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diddler n.

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did·dle ²  (ddl)

v. did·dled, did·dling, did·dles

v.tr.

1. To jerk up and down or back and forth.

2. Vulgar Slang

a. To have intercourse with (a woman).

b. To practice masturbation upon.

v.intr.

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.

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[Probably alteration of dialectal didder, to quiver, tremble, from Middle English dideren, variant of daderen, doderen, perhaps from Low German.]

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diddle¹

vb Informal

1. (tr) to cheat or swindle

2. (intr) an obsolete word for dawdle

[back formation from Jeremy Diddler, a scrounger in J. Kenney's farce Raising the Wind (1803)]

diddler  n

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diddle²

vb

Dialect to jerk (an object) up and down or back and forth; shake rapidly

[probably variant of doderen to tremble, totter; see dodder¹]

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	diddle - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" bunco, con, defraud, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, short-change, victimize short, short-change - cheat someone by not returning him enough money cheat, rip off, chisel - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
	2.	diddle - manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" toy, fiddle, play manipulate - hold something in one's hands and move it put out, retire - cause to be out on a fielding play

Translations

diddle [ˈdɪdl] VT → estafar, timar
to diddle sb out of sth → estafar algo a algn

diddle [ˈdɪd^əl]

vt (mainly British) (= con) → rouler

vi (US) to diddle with sth (= fiddle) → tripatouiller qch
to diddle around (= waste time) → traînasser

diddle

vt (Brit inf) → übers Ohr hauen (inf), → beschummeln; you have been diddled → man hat Sie übers Ohr gehauen; to diddle somebody out of something → jdm etw abgaunern (inf)

diddle [ˈdɪdl] vt (fam) → infinocchiare
to diddle sb out of sth → fregare qc a qn

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diddle [ˈdɪdl] vt (fam) → infinocchiare
to diddle sb out of sth → fregare qc a qn