diddlen.

Etymology: Three different words: compare preceding verbs.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdiddle.

slang and vulgar.

a. The sound of the fiddle; cf. diddle v.¹ 2.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of stringed instrument > sound of fiddle

diddle-diddlec1670

diddle1806

1806 J. Train Poet. Reveries (Jam.) In their ears it is a diddle Like the sounding of a fiddle.

b. A slight and rapid movement in dancing.

ΚΠ

1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 12 Rhoda Nobles swam through the reel like a cork on wavy waters, giving two or three pretty little perch-bite diddles as she rose from a coupee.

2. A swindle, a deception.

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > instance or piece of

lurch1533

fool-finder1685

chouse1708

swindle1778

swindling1814

do1821

shave1834

steal1872

fiddle1874

diddle1885

ramp1888

tweedle1890

take-down1892

window dressing1892

gyp1898

bobol1907

flanker1923

hype1926

have-on1931

chizz1953

scam1963

rip-off1968

rip1971

1885 Punch 5 Sept. 110 (Farmer) And something whispered me—in diction chaste—It's all a diddle!

3. A slang name for gin, and in U.S. for liquor generally. Hence diddle-cove n. slang a keeper of a gin or spirit shop.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun]

bottled lightning1713

gin1713

royal bob1722

diddle1725

strike-fire1725

tittery1725

max1728

maxim1739

strip-me-naked1751

eye-water1755

sky blue1755

lightning1781

Jacky1800

ribbon1811

Daffy's elixir1821

sweet-stuff1835

tiger's milk1850

juniper1857

cream of the wilderness1858

satin1864

Twankay1900

panther1931

mother's ruin1933

needle and pin1937

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of liquor

wine-tavernerc950

vinter1297

wine-drawer1415

vintnerc1430

vintenerc1450

ale-taker1454

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ale-man1600

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haberdasher1821

gin-shopper1831

liquor-seller1855

diddle-cove1858

curate1882

off-licensee1892

1725 New Canting Dict. Diddle, the Cant Word for Geneva.

1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 31 Diddle, Geneva.

1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold iii. i. 252 (Farmer) And there's a first-rate ‘diddle-cove’ keeps a gin-shop there.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

diddlev.¹

/ˈdɪd(ə)l/

Etymology: apparently a parallel form to didder v., the formative suffixes -le suffix and -er suffix⁵ being somewhat akin in their force, though the former is more strictly diminutival. Compare daddle v.¹, daidle v.; there are evident analogies both of form and sense between didder, dadder, diddle, daddle.

colloquial or dialect.

†1. intransitive. To walk unsteadily, as a child; to toddle; = daddle v.¹ Obsolete.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > with short unsteady steps

toddle?1590

paddle1606

dade1612

diddle1632

daddle1710

dacker1817

tottle1822

tot1824

poddle1827

1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) i. iv. 3 And when his forward strength began to bloom, To see him diddle up and down the Room!

2. intransitive. To move from side to side by jerks; to shake, quiver.

ΚΠ

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 300 Hale be your Heart! Hale be your Fiddle! Lang may your elbuck jink an' diddle.

a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 60 You..wi' your clairon, flute, an' fiddle, Will gar their southern heart-strings diddle.

1835 D. Webster in Harp Renfrewsh. (1873) 2nd Ser. 154 Wi fiddling and diddling and dancing The house was in perfect uproar.

3. transitive. To jerk from side to side.

ΚΠ

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xv. 173 A fiddler diddling his elbock in the chimney-side.

a. intransitive and transitive. To copulate or have sexual intercourse (with), esp. with woman as object.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse

playOE

to do (also work) one's kindc1225

bedc1315

couple1362

gendera1382

to go togetherc1390

to come togethera1398

meddlea1398

felterc1400

companya1425

swivec1440

japea1450

mellc1450

to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474

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conversec1540

jostlec1540

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mate1589

do1594

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consortc1600

pair1603

to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608

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screw1725

pump1730

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shag1770

hump1785

conjugate1790

diddle1879

to get some1889

fuckeec1890

jig-a-jig1896

perform1902

rabbit1919

jazz1920

sex1921

root1922

yentz1923

to make love1927

rock1931

mollock1932

to make (beautiful) music (together)1936

sleep1936

bang1937

lumber1938

to hop into bed (with)1951

to make out1951

ball1955

score1960

trick1965

to have it away1966

to roll in the hay1966

to get down1967

poontang1968

pork1968

shtup1969

shack1976

bonk1984

boink1985

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with

mingeOE

haveOE

knowc1175

ofliec1275

to lie with (or by)a1300

knowledgec1300

meetc1330

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yknowc1350

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usea1387

takec1390

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to meet witha1400

servea1400

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to come in1530

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mow1568

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yark1600

tumble1603

to taste of1607

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mix?1614

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sheet1637

carnal1643

night-work1654

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bumble1680

frig?c1680

fuck1707

stick1707

screw1719

soil1722

to do over1730

shag1770

hump1785

subagitatec1830

diddle1879

to give (someone) onec1882

charver1889

fuckeec1890

plugc1890

dick1892

to make a baby1911

to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912

jazz1920

rock1922

yentz1924

roll1926

to make love1927

shtupa1934

to give (or get) a tumble1934

shack1935

bang1937

to have it off1937

rump1937

tom1949

to hop into bed (with)1951

ball1955

to make it1957

plank1958

score1960

naughty1961

pull1965

pleasurea1967

to have away1968

to have off1968

dork1970

shaft1970

bonk1975

knob1984

boink1985

fand-

1879 in G. Legman Limerick (1974) vii. 131 There was a young man from Toulouse Who thought he would diddle a goose.

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 308/2 Diddle, to (vulgar), to have sexual commerce.

1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. ii. 134 ‘I'll find all three of them. I'll—’ ‘What for? Just out of curiosity to find out for certain just which of them was and wasn't diddling her?’

1966 ‘E. V. Cunningham’ Helen iv. 45 You're some cheap Polack hooker that was tossed out of a parochial school fer diddling little boys.

b. intransitive and reflexive. To masturbate (now chiefly U.S.). slang.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > masturbate [verb (reflexive)]

masturbate1857

to play with ——1879

to toss off1879

frigc1890

touch1892

to jerk off1904

to pull off1909

jackc1930

diddle1960

to jack off1967

manipulate1971

1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 146/2 There was a man from Racine Who invented a diddling machine; Both concave and convex, It could fit either sex.

1974 K. Millett Flying (1975) iii. 348 Paraphernalia with the scarf... Supposed to diddle herself with it. Male fantasy of lonely chick masturbating in sad need of him.

1983 M. Gee Sole Survivor vi. 60 ‘I used to get erections on parade in the school cadets.’ ‘What did you do?’ He shrugged. ‘Do you diddle yourself?’ That was hard for me to admit. He waited until I said yes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

diddlev.²

Etymology: apparently onomatopoeic, representing the effect of singing, without uttering connected words. Dialectally deedle and doodle are used in a similar sense.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdiddle.

transitive. To sing without distinct utterance of words.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > sing without words

diddle1706

la-la1906

scat1946

1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vi. 3 So all sung diff'rent Tunes and Graces, Such as they us'd to lull and diddle To froward Infants in the Cradle.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

diddlev.³

/ˈdɪd(ə)l/

Etymology: A recent word, of obscure origin. It is possible that sense 1 was transferred < diddle v.¹, and was the source of the name diddler n., and that sense 2 was back-formation from that word. Sense 2 might however, as far as form and meaning go, be related to Old English didrian , dydrian to deceive, delude (compare what is said of the suffixes -er , and -le , under diddle v.¹); but there is an interval of eight or nine centuries between the known occurrences of the words. It is worthy of note also that doodle occurs in the sense ‘to befool’, and that doodle, noun ‘simpleton, noodle’ goes back to c1600.

colloquial.

1. ‘To waste time in the merest trifling’ (Forby a1825). Hence to diddle away: to trifle away (time), to waste in a trifling manner.

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the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > waste time

leese?c1225

losea1340

defer1382

wastea1400

slip1435

consumea1500

superexpend1513

slow?1522

sloth1523

to fode forth1525

slack1548

dree1584

sleuth1584

confound1598

spenda1604

to fret out1608

to spin out1608

misplace1609

spend1614

tavern1628

devast1632

to drill away, on, outa1656

dulla1682

to dally away1685

squander1693

to linger awaya1704

dangle1727

dawdle1768

slim1812

diddle1826

to run out the clock1957

1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 6 Sept. (1939) 225 A day diddled away, and nothing to show for it!

1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 17 Feb. (1946) 22 I was at the court, where there was little to do, but it diddled away my time till two.

2. transitive.

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a. To cheat or swindle; to victimize; to ‘do’.

b. To do for, undo, ruin; to kill.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > destroy or ruin a person

spillc950

amarOE

smitelOE

aspillc1175

mischievec1325

to bid (something) misadventurec1330

mara1375

fordoc1380

undo1390

wrack1564

to make roast meat of (also for)1565

wrake1567

wreck1590

speed1594

feeze1609

to do a person's business1667

cook1708

to settle a person's hash1795

diddle1806

to fix1836

raddle1951

1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. v. 127 That flashy captain..may lay all London under contribution..but he can't diddle me.

1809 European Mag. 60 19 We shall soon find ourselves completely diddled and undone.

1810 W. B. Rhodes Bombastes Furioso iv. 23 Oh, Fusbos, Fusbos! I am diddled quite.

1817 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 111 He..exclaimed, ‘Then you are diddled!’ Think of the effect of this slang upon incroyable ears!

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xvii. 111 Poor Tom was..Full flash, all fancy, until fairly diddled.

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. vii. 209 I suppose we diddled at least a hundred men.

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 145 The labourer..invariably finds himself at the end of the week victimised, or, to use a more expressive, though not so genteel a term, diddled, to a heart-rending extent.

1879 Public Opinion 12 July 42 He may diddle his tradesmen.

c. to diddle out of: to do out of, swindle out of.

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something

beguile1394

wrongc1484

delude1493

licka1500

to wipe a person's nose1577

uncle1585

cheat1597

cozen1602

to bob of1605

to bob out of1605

gull1612

foola1616

to set in the nick1616

to worm (a person) out of1617

shuffle1627

to baffle out of1652

chouse1654

trepan1662

bubble1668

trick1698

to bamboozle out of1705

fling1749

jockey1772

swindle1780

twiddle1825

to diddle out of1829

nig1829

to chisel out of1848

to beat out1851

nobble1852

duff1863

flim-flam1890

1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 27 Mar. (1946) 44 I am diddled out of a Day all the same.

1832 C. Lamb Let. 3 Apr. (1935) III. 333 What a cheap Book is the last Hogarth you sent me! I am pleased now that Hunt diddled me out of the old one.

1886 A. Griffiths Pauper Peer i You were robbed, euchred, diddled out of fifty thousand pounds.

Derivatives

ˈdiddling n. and adj.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > [adjective]

self-abusing1599

diddlinga1849

masturbatory1864

masturbational1890

onanistic1892

autoerotic1898

jack-off1967

wanky1976

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun]

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fraudingc1530

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rooking1635

defraudment1645

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prowlerya1670

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sharping1692

mace1742

fineering1765

swindling1769

highway robbery1777

macing1811

flat-catching1821

ramping1830

swindlery1833

rigging1846

diddlinga1849

suck-in1856

daylight robbery1863

cooking1873

bunco-steering1875

chousing1881

fiddling1884

verneukery1896

padding1900

verneukering1900

bobol1907

swizzle1913

ramp1915

swizz1915

chizzing1948

tweedling1975

a1849 E. A. Poe Diddling in Wks. (1864) IV. 268 Diddling, rightly considered, is a compound, of which the ingredients are minuteness, interest, perseverance, ingenuity, audacity, nonchalance, originality, impertinence and grin.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 10 May 2/3 No Interference with the Diddling of the Public.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

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also refers to : diddle-comb. form

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v.³1806

单词	diddle
释义	diddlen. Etymology: Three different words: compare preceding verbs.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdiddle. slang and vulgar. 1. a. The sound of the fiddle; cf. diddle v.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of stringed instrument > sound of fiddle diddle-diddlec1670 diddle1806 1806 J. Train Poet. Reveries (Jam.) In their ears it is a diddle Like the sounding of a fiddle. b. A slight and rapid movement in dancing. ΚΠ 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 12 Rhoda Nobles swam through the reel like a cork on wavy waters, giving two or three pretty little perch-bite diddles as she rose from a coupee. 2. A swindle, a deception. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > instance or piece of lurch1533 fool-finder1685 chouse1708 swindle1778 swindling1814 do1821 shave1834 steal1872 fiddle1874 diddle1885 ramp1888 tweedle1890 take-down1892 window dressing1892 gyp1898 bobol1907 flanker1923 hype1926 have-on1931 chizz1953 scam1963 rip-off1968 rip1971 1885 Punch 5 Sept. 110 (Farmer) And something whispered me—in diction chaste—It's all a diddle! 3. A slang name for gin, and in U.S. for liquor generally. Hence diddle-cove n. slang a keeper of a gin or spirit shop. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun] bottled lightning1713 gin1713 royal bob1722 diddle1725 strike-fire1725 tittery1725 max1728 maxim1739 strip-me-naked1751 eye-water1755 sky blue1755 lightning1781 Jacky1800 ribbon1811 Daffy's elixir1821 sweet-stuff1835 tiger's milk1850 juniper1857 cream of the wilderness1858 satin1864 Twankay1900 panther1931 mother's ruin1933 needle and pin1937 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of liquor wine-tavernerc950 vinter1297 wine-drawer1415 vintnerc1430 vintenerc1450 ale-taker1454 merchant vintner1532 winer1532 ale-man1600 gaugerc1610 brandy-man1723 purl-man1797 haberdasher1821 gin-shopper1831 liquor-seller1855 diddle-cove1858 curate1882 off-licensee1892 1725 New Canting Dict. Diddle, the Cant Word for Geneva. 1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 31 Diddle, Geneva. 1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold iii. i. 252 (Farmer) And there's a first-rate ‘diddle-cove’ keeps a gin-shop there. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019). diddlev.¹ /ˈdɪd(ə)l/ Etymology: apparently a parallel form to didder v., the formative suffixes -le suffix and -er suffix⁵ being somewhat akin in their force, though the former is more strictly diminutival. Compare daddle v.¹, daidle v.; there are evident analogies both of form and sense between didder, dadder, diddle, daddle. colloquial or dialect. †1. intransitive. To walk unsteadily, as a child; to toddle; = daddle v.¹ Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > with short unsteady steps toddle?1590 paddle1606 dade1612 diddle1632 daddle1710 dacker1817 tottle1822 tot1824 poddle1827 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) i. iv. 3 And when his forward strength began to bloom, To see him diddle up and down the Room! 2. intransitive. To move from side to side by jerks; to shake, quiver. ΚΠ a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 300 Hale be your Heart! Hale be your Fiddle! Lang may your elbuck jink an' diddle. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 60 You..wi' your clairon, flute, an' fiddle, Will gar their southern heart-strings diddle. 1835 D. Webster in Harp Renfrewsh. (1873) 2nd Ser. 154 Wi fiddling and diddling and dancing The house was in perfect uproar. 3. transitive. To jerk from side to side. ΚΠ 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xv. 173 A fiddler diddling his elbock in the chimney-side. 4. a. intransitive and transitive. To copulate or have sexual intercourse (with), esp. with woman as object. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with mingeOE haveOE knowc1175 ofliec1275 to lie with (or by)a1300 knowledgec1300 meetc1330 beliea1350 yknowc1350 touchc1384 deala1387 dightc1386 usea1387 takec1390 commona1400 to meet witha1400 servea1400 occupy?a1475 engender1483 jangle1488 to be busy with1525 to come in1530 visitc1540 niggle1567 mow1568 to mix one's thigh with1593 do1594 grind1598 pepper1600 yark1600 tumble1603 to taste of1607 compressc1611 jumble1611 mix?1614 consort?1615 tastea1616 bumfiddle1630 ingressa1631 sheet1637 carnal1643 night-work1654 bump1669 bumble1680 frig?c1680 fuck1707 stick1707 screw1719 soil1722 to do over1730 shag1770 hump1785 subagitatec1830 diddle1879 to give (someone) onec1882 charver1889 fuckeec1890 plugc1890 dick1892 to make a baby1911 to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912 jazz1920 rock1922 yentz1924 roll1926 to make love1927 shtupa1934 to give (or get) a tumble1934 shack1935 bang1937 to have it off1937 rump1937 tom1949 to hop into bed (with)1951 ball1955 to make it1957 plank1958 score1960 naughty1961 pull1965 pleasurea1967 to have away1968 to have off1968 dork1970 shaft1970 bonk1975 knob1984 boink1985 fand- 1879 in G. Legman Limerick (1974) vii. 131 There was a young man from Toulouse Who thought he would diddle a goose. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 308/2 Diddle, to (vulgar), to have sexual commerce. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. ii. 134 ‘I'll find all three of them. I'll—’ ‘What for? Just out of curiosity to find out for certain just which of them was and wasn't diddling her?’ 1966 ‘E. V. Cunningham’ Helen iv. 45 You're some cheap Polack hooker that was tossed out of a parochial school fer diddling little boys. b. intransitive and reflexive. To masturbate (now chiefly U.S.). slang. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > masturbate [verb (reflexive)] masturbate1857 to play with ——1879 to toss off1879 frigc1890 touch1892 to jerk off1904 to pull off1909 jackc1930 diddle1960 to jack off1967 manipulate1971 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 146/2 There was a man from Racine Who invented a diddling machine; Both concave and convex, It could fit either sex. 1974 K. Millett Flying (1975) iii. 348 Paraphernalia with the scarf... Supposed to diddle herself with it. Male fantasy of lonely chick masturbating in sad need of him. 1983 M. Gee Sole Survivor vi. 60 ‘I used to get erections on parade in the school cadets.’ ‘What did you do?’ He shrugged. ‘Do you diddle yourself?’ That was hard for me to admit. He waited until I said yes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). diddlev.² Etymology: apparently onomatopoeic, representing the effect of singing, without uttering connected words. Dialectally deedle and doodle are used in a similar sense.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdiddle. transitive. To sing without distinct utterance of words. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > sing without words diddle1706 la-la1906 scat1946 1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vi. 3 So all sung diff'rent Tunes and Graces, Such as they us'd to lull and diddle To froward Infants in the Cradle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). diddlev.³ /ˈdɪd(ə)l/ Etymology: A recent word, of obscure origin. It is possible that sense 1 was transferred < diddle v.¹, and was the source of the name diddler n., and that sense 2 was back-formation from that word. Sense 2 might however, as far as form and meaning go, be related to Old English didrian , dydrian to deceive, delude (compare what is said of the suffixes -er , and -le , under diddle v.¹); but there is an interval of eight or nine centuries between the known occurrences of the words. It is worthy of note also that doodle occurs in the sense ‘to befool’, and that doodle, noun ‘simpleton, noodle’ goes back to c1600. colloquial. 1. ‘To waste time in the merest trifling’ (Forby a1825). Hence to diddle away: to trifle away (time), to waste in a trifling manner. ΘΚΠ the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > waste time leese?c1225 losea1340 defer1382 wastea1400 slip1435 consumea1500 superexpend1513 slow?1522 sloth1523 to fode forth1525 slack1548 dree1584 sleuth1584 confound1598 spenda1604 to fret out1608 to spin out1608 misplace1609 spend1614 tavern1628 devast1632 to drill away, on, outa1656 dulla1682 to dally away1685 squander1693 to linger awaya1704 dangle1727 dawdle1768 slim1812 diddle1826 to run out the clock1957 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 6 Sept. (1939) 225 A day diddled away, and nothing to show for it! 1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 17 Feb. (1946) 22 I was at the court, where there was little to do, but it diddled away my time till two. 2. transitive. Thesaurus » Categories » a. To cheat or swindle; to victimize; to ‘do’. b. To do for, undo, ruin; to kill. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > destroy or ruin a person spillc950 amarOE smitelOE aspillc1175 mischievec1325 to bid (something) misadventurec1330 mara1375 fordoc1380 undo1390 wrack1564 to make roast meat of (also for)1565 wrake1567 wreck1590 speed1594 feeze1609 to do a person's business1667 cook1708 to settle a person's hash1795 diddle1806 to fix1836 raddle1951 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. v. 127 That flashy captain..may lay all London under contribution..but he can't diddle me. 1809 European Mag. 60 19 We shall soon find ourselves completely diddled and undone. 1810 W. B. Rhodes Bombastes Furioso iv. 23 Oh, Fusbos, Fusbos! I am diddled quite. 1817 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 111 He..exclaimed, ‘Then you are diddled!’ Think of the effect of this slang upon incroyable ears! 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xvii. 111 Poor Tom was..Full flash, all fancy, until fairly diddled. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. vii. 209 I suppose we diddled at least a hundred men. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 145 The labourer..invariably finds himself at the end of the week victimised, or, to use a more expressive, though not so genteel a term, diddled, to a heart-rending extent. 1879 Public Opinion 12 July 42 He may diddle his tradesmen. c. to diddle out of: to do out of, swindle out of. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something beguile1394 wrongc1484 delude1493 licka1500 to wipe a person's nose1577 uncle1585 cheat1597 cozen1602 to bob of1605 to bob out of1605 gull1612 foola1616 to set in the nick1616 to worm (a person) out of1617 shuffle1627 to baffle out of1652 chouse1654 trepan1662 bubble1668 trick1698 to bamboozle out of1705 fling1749 jockey1772 swindle1780 twiddle1825 to diddle out of1829 nig1829 to chisel out of1848 to beat out1851 nobble1852 duff1863 flim-flam1890 1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 27 Mar. (1946) 44 I am diddled out of a Day all the same. 1832 C. Lamb Let. 3 Apr. (1935) III. 333 What a cheap Book is the last Hogarth you sent me! I am pleased now that Hunt diddled me out of the old one. 1886 A. Griffiths Pauper Peer i You were robbed, euchred, diddled out of fifty thousand pounds. Derivatives ˈdiddling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > [adjective] self-abusing1599 diddlinga1849 masturbatory1864 masturbational1890 onanistic1892 autoerotic1898 jack-off1967 wanky1976 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] defraudc1450 defraudationc1503 fraudingc1530 defrauding1548 cheateryc1555 cheatingc1555 versing1591 begeckc1600 sharking1602 shaving1606 rooking1635 defraudment1645 emunging1664 prowlerya1670 bilking1687 sharping1692 mace1742 fineering1765 swindling1769 highway robbery1777 macing1811 flat-catching1821 ramping1830 swindlery1833 rigging1846 diddlinga1849 suck-in1856 daylight robbery1863 cooking1873 bunco-steering1875 chousing1881 fiddling1884 verneukery1896 padding1900 verneukering1900 bobol1907 swizzle1913 ramp1915 swizz1915 chizzing1948 tweedling1975 a1849 E. A. Poe Diddling in Wks. (1864) IV. 268 Diddling, rightly considered, is a compound, of which the ingredients are minuteness, interest, perseverance, ingenuity, audacity, nonchalance, originality, impertinence and grin. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 10 May 2/3 No Interference with the Diddling of the Public. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2019). > see also also refers to : diddle-comb. form < n.1725v.¹1632v.²1706v.³1806 see also
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