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diddledid‧dle /ˈdɪdl/ verb [transitive] British English informal  diddleOrigin: 1800-1900 Perhaps from Diddler, name of a character in a 19th-century English play VERB TABLEdiddle |
Present | I, you, we, they | diddle | | he, she, it | diddles | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | diddled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have diddled | | he, she, it | has diddled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had diddled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will diddle | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have diddled |
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Present | I | am diddling | | he, she, it | is diddling | | you, we, they | are diddling | Past | I, he, she, it | was diddling | | you, we, they | were diddling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been diddling | | he, she, it | has been diddling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been diddling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be diddling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been diddling |
- In high school, he often diddled around on the piano.
- Don has cleared up the way he diddled his income-tax returns.
- In this instance, the Department of Health is diddling general practitioners.
to get money from someone by deceiving them SYN swindlediddle somebody out of something They’ll diddle you out of your last penny if you let them. |