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1. (v.t.) diddle
Informal. to cheat; swindle.
2. (v.i. Informal.) diddle
to toy; fool:
diddling with the controls.
3. diddle
to waste time (often fol. by around).
4. diddle
to move back and forth with short rapid motions.
5. (v.t.) diddle
Dial. to move back and forth rapidly; jiggle.
Etymology: (1780–90; expressive coinage, cf. dodder1, doodle)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
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"
2. (verb) toy, fiddle, diddle, play
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"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) diddle
to totter, as a child in walking
2. (verb) diddle
to cheat or overreach
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. 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.
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