Crossword clues for diddle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diddle \Did"dle\, v. t. [Perh. from AS. dyderian to deceive, the
letter r being changed to l.]
To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.]
--Beaconsfield.
Diddle \Did"dle\, v. i. [Cf. Daddle.]
To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.]
--Quarles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to cheat, swindle," 1806, from dialectal duddle, diddle "to totter" (1630s). 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. Related: Diddled; diddling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed 2 (context slang childish English) The penis. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to cheat; to swindle 2 (context transitive English) to have sex with 3 (context transitive English) to masturbate (especially of women) 4 (context transitive English) to waste time 5 (context intransitive English) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
WordNet
v. 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" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con]
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" [syn: toy, fiddle, play]
Wikipedia
A diddle is a type of drum rudiment.
Diddle may also refer to:
Usage examples of "diddle".
And pathos and bathos delightful to see, And chop and change ribs, a-la-mode Germanorum, And high diddle ho diddle, pop tweedle dee.
All I can tell you is that beyond the deserted village is the outer wall, and beyond the outer wall is a great crack in the earth filled with monsters that cozen, diddle, increase, and plot to escape.
Why, that mawworm was trying to diddle me out of my whole bank account!
SHAEF staff by pronouncing Shayfe as Sheef, and then going onto explain that a sheaf was something somebody who lisped put on when he wished to diddle somebody.
Laurel had diddled me, good, with all her talk of the security fluoroscope fogging up a roll of microfilm if a nurse tried to walk out with it.
I scrimped and saved, like a cheeseparing miser for the past five years trying to keep his estates in order, his crofts producing, and his vineyards turning a profit single-handed, while he diddled about on the Peninsula.
Not just our honchos, our honchos have to consult with the honchos from all the operating companies because they own a helluva lot of the switches you want to diddle with.
A field flux of the singularity executed a deft Dedekind Cut between a pair of seconds whose interval we traversed, transporting us to a timeless space where we dawdled, showered, ate, drank, diddled, and did it again while no customers were kept waiting or could be as we did it in her room atop the iron stair, skins of her former selves proudly displayed upon the wall.
Some odd need in him craved for praise, and the only way it could be satisfied was to tot up each week the amounts out of which he had diddled the firm, forgetting that the firm was the old girl.
Before the captain was through talking, Hummfree was bent over his controls, diddling dials and tickling toggles.
They grabbed me, dumped me in this hole, and diddled with my coco so that I was about three steps away from being a vegetable.
Conning it out of the bleedin' true believers, and he knew how to diddle the nuts into trading all they had for their chance to shape human destiny -- that's what he called his one-way tickets to die.
She lies up against me and rubs her mop over my legs, diddles her fig against my bush, covering me and the whole room with that hot, sweet stink which pours out of her.
She lies on her back and diddles me, and I can see the jism and juice squeezing out of her bald figlet.
The wretched little thief who pinches a handful of silver spoons gets shoved into clink through a perfect orgy of congratulations to the police and the magistrates, but the bird who diddles the public of a few hundred thousands by legal methods gets knighthood.