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
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.
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
• (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
diddle
A meaningless word used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
• 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
10 April 2025
(adjective) capable of being extinguished or killed; “an extinguishable fire”; “hope too is extinguishable”
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.
