diddle
Meaning of diddle
- cheat or swindle (someone) so as to deprive them of something.
he thought he'd been diddled out of his change
- pass time aimlessly or unproductively.
I felt sorry for her, diddling around in her room while her friends were having a good time
- have sex with (someone).
early 19th century: probably from the name of Jeremy Diddler, a character in the farce Raising the Wind (1803) by the Irish dramatist James Kenney (1780–1849). Diddler constantly borrowed and failed to repay small sums of money: the name may be based on an earlier verb diddle ‘walk unsteadily’.
Information about diddle
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of diddle is: diddles.
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Hyphenation of diddle
did-dle
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- diddle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
diddle synonyms
Meaning victimize:
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, con
Meaning toy:
Anagrams of diddle
Words that rhyme with diddle
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