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diddle
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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).

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

diddler n.

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.

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

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

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]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.diddlediddle - 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"
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.diddlediddle - 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"
manipulate - hold something in one's hands and move it
put out, retire - cause to be out on a fielding play
Translations
diddle [ˈdɪdl] VTestafar, timar
to diddle sb out of sthestafar algo a algn
diddle [ˈdɪdəl]
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 diddledman hat Sie übers Ohr gehauen; to diddle somebody out of somethingjdm etw abgaunern (inf)
diddle [ˈdɪdl] vt (fam) → infinocchiare
to diddle sb out of sth → fregare qc a qn
diddle [ˈdɪdl] vt (fam) → infinocchiare
to diddle sb out of sth → fregare qc a qn


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