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Diddle

verb
1.
Deprive of by deceit.  Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize.  "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" , "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
2.
Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.  Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy.  "Don't fiddle with the screws" , "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"






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"Diddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... anguisht wraith; Ah me; ah me! (Sweet squashes, mother!) Wan hope a dolorous musing saith; (Ah me; ah me! Dum diddle dee!) ...
— The Re-echo Club • Carolyn Wells

... difficult to assign a reason or occasion for the composition of The Blues, it is a harder, perhaps an impossible, task to identify all the dramatis personae. Botherby, Lady Bluemount, and Miss Diddle are, obviously, Sotheby, Lady Beaumont, and Lydia White. Scamp the Lecturer may be Hazlitt, who had incurred Byron's displeasure by commenting on his various and varying estimates of Napoleon (see Lectures on the English Poets, 1818, p. 304, and Don Juan, Canto 1. ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron

... with brand new fivers, And sang little songs to the engine drivers. 'Twas told to me with great compunction, By one who had discharged with unction A chairman of directors function On the North South East West Diddlesex Junction. Fol diddle, lol diddle, ...
— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

... "When you are king, diddle-diddle, I shall be queen," Brilliana laughed at him, making a reverence. He joined Halfman at the door and Master Peter ...
— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... was a jolly old soul, And a jolly old soul was he; He called for his ale, and he called for his beer, And he called for his fiddle-diddle-dee. ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor


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