DIDDLE

toy, fiddle, diddle, play

(verb) 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”

victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con

(verb) deprive of by deceit; “He swindled me out of my inheritance”; “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”;

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

diddle (plural diddles)

(music) 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.

(slang, childish) The penis.

Verb

diddle (third-person singular simple present diddles, present participle diddling, simple past and past participle diddled)

(transitive, slang) To cheat; to swindle.

(transitive, slang) To have sex with.

(transitive, slang) To masturbate (especially of women).

(transitive) To waste time.

(intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.

(transitive, computing, slang) To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).

Coordinate term: twiddle

Synonyms

• (cheat, swindle): defraud, take for a ride; see also deceive

• (have sex with): go to bed with, sleep with; see also copulate with

• (masturbate): beat off, play with oneself; see also masturbate

• (waste time): dick around, lollygag; see also loiter

• (totter): reel, stagger, sway

Interjection

diddle

A meaningless word used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.

Anagrams

• lidded

Source: Wiktionary

Did"dle, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Daddle.]

Definition: To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] Quarles.

Did"dle, v. t. Etym: [Perh. from AS. dyderian to deceive, the letter r being changed to l.]

Definition: To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] Beaconsfield.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition