diddle (redirected from diddling)

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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diddle

Verb

[-dling, -dled] Informal to swindle [Jeremy Diddler, a scrounger in a 19th-century play]

diddler n

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

diddle [ˈdɪdl] (inf) vt → übers Ohr hauen