Diddle

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diddle \Did"dle\, v. i. [Cf. {Daddle}.]
     To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] --Quarles.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Diddle \Did"dle\, v. t. [Perh. from AS. dyderian to deceive, the
     letter r being changed to l.]
     To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] --Beaconsfield.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  diddle
       v 1: 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" [syn: {victimize}, {swindle}, {rook}, {goldbrick},
             {nobble}, {bunco}, {defraud}, {scam}, {mulct}, {gyp}, {con}]
       2: 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" [syn: {toy}, {fiddle}, {play}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  135 Moby Thesaurus words for "diddle":
     ball, bamboozle, be intimate, beat, beguile, beguile of,
     beguile the time, betray, bilk, bluff, bunco, burn, burn daylight,
     cajole, cheat, cheat on, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent,
     cog, cog the dice, cohabit, come together, commit adultery, con,
     conjure, consume time, copulate, couple, cover, cozen, crib,
     dabble, dally, dawdle, deceive, defraud, delude, dillydally, do,
     do in, do out of, doodle, double-cross, drone, dupe, euchre,
     finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, footle, forestall, fornicate,
     fribble, frig, fritter away time, fudge, gammon, get around, gouge,
     gull, gyp, have, have sex, have sexual relations, hoax, hocus,
     hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug, juggle, kill time, lag, lallygag,
     lay, laze, let down, lie with, linger, loaf, loiter, loll,
     lollygag, lose time, lounge, make it with, make love, make out,
     mate, mock, mount, mulct, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit,
     overreach, pack the deal, pass the time, piddle, pigeon,
     play one false, poke, potter, practice fraud upon,
     put something over, putter, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks,
     serve, service, shave, shortchange, sleep with, snow,
     stack the cards, stick, sting, string along, swindle, take,
     take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, trick, trifle,
     two-time, victimize, waste time
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  diddle
       
          1. 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. The action or result of diddling.
       
          See also {tweak}, {twiddle}, {frob}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-01-31)