diddle in Sindhi سنڌي
diddle in Telugu తెలుగు
diddle in English
- diddle⇄diddle (1), transitive verb, -dled,-dling.
(Informal.)
1. to cheat; swindle.
Ex. He diddled his landlady out of two weeks' rent. Do it yourself, and you won't be diddled (New Yorker).
2. to waste (time).
3. to ruin; undo. - diddle⇄diddle (2), intransitive verb, -dled,-dling.
(Informal or Dialect.) to move from side to side by jerks; shake; quiver. - diddle⇄expr. diddle away, to trifle away; waste in a trifling manner.
Ex. A day diddled away, and nothing to show for it! (Scott). - diddle⇄noun diddler.