diddle

verbloiter

Synonyms for diddle

verb loiter

Antonyms for diddle

give

Word Origin & History

"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.

Example Sentences for diddle

Since still they make ballads that worse and worseSavor of diddle and hey-de-dee.

The origin of the diddle is referrable to the infancy of the Human Race.

I reason a priori, and a diddle would be no diddle without a grin.

We all wondered what this could be, for we knew it was not there when Diddle went up.

He there states that Pancakes and “Diddle, diddle dumplings O!”

Did they mean Sir William's son, John, by their "diddle dumpling?"

They diddle the workers o' France an' ither countries in the same way.

I hope you will be so successful in your foreign journey as to diddle the Edinburgh folk out of some cash this winter.

Diddling—or the abstract idea conveyed by the verb to diddle—is sufficiently well understood.

A diddler may thus be regarded as a banker in petto—a "financial operation," as a diddle at Brobdignag.

diddle

Synonyms for diddle

Antonyms for diddle

connive

conniving

flimflam

fool

fools

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connive

conniving

flimflam

fool

fools

Synonyms for diddle

cheat