Diddle \Did"dle\, v. i. [Cf. Daddle.]
To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] --Quarles.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Diddle \Did"dle\, v. t. [Perh. from AS. dyderian to deceive, the
letter r being changed to l.]
To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] --Beaconsfield.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
diddle
v 1: 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]
2: 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "diddle":
ball, bamboozle, be intimate, beat, beguile, beguile of,
beguile the time, betray, bilk, bluff, bunco, burn, burn daylight,
cajole, cheat, cheat on, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent,
cog, cog the dice, cohabit, come together, commit adultery, con,
conjure, consume time, copulate, couple, cover, cozen, crib,
dabble, dally, dawdle, deceive, defraud, delude, dillydally, do,
do in, do out of, doodle, double-cross, drone, dupe, euchre,
finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, footle, forestall, fornicate,
fribble, frig, fritter away time, fudge, gammon, get around, gouge,
gull, gyp, have, have sex, have sexual relations, hoax, hocus,
hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug, juggle, kill time, lag, lallygag,
lay, laze, let down, lie with, linger, loaf, loiter, loll,
lollygag, lose time, lounge, make it with, make love, make out,
mate, mock, mount, mulct, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit,
overreach, pack the deal, pass the time, piddle, pigeon,
play one false, poke, potter, practice fraud upon,
put something over, putter, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks,
serve, service, shave, shortchange, sleep with, snow,
stack the cards, stick, sting, string along, swindle, take,
take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, trick, trifle,
two-time, victimize, waste time
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
diddle 1. vt. To work with or modify in a not-particularly-serious
manner. "I diddled a copy of ADVENT so it didn't double-space all the
time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes
away." See tweak and twiddle. 2. n. The action or result of
diddling. See also tweak, twiddle, frob.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
diddle
1. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious
manner. "I diddled a copy of ADVENT so it didn't
double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code
and see if the problem goes away."
See tweak and twiddle.
2. The action or result of diddling.
See also tweak, twiddle, frob.
[{Jargon File]
(1995-01-31)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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