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diddle
(encz) | diddle,ošidit v: Zdeněk Brož |
Diddle
(gcide) | Diddle \Did"dle\, v. i. [Cf. Daddle.]
To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] --Quarles.
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Diddle
(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.
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diddle
(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, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, 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, diddle, play] |
diddle
(foldoc) | diddle
(US) To work in a casual manner, or the result of such
work. (In the UK "to diddle someone" means to cheat them).
"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."
Similar to twiddle, less purposeful than tweak.
[Jargon File]
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diddle
(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.
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diddler
(encz) | diddler,podvodník n: Zdeněk Brož |
diddley
(encz) | diddley, n: |
paradiddle
(encz) | paradiddle, n: |
taradiddle
(encz) | taradiddle, n: |
tarradiddle
(encz) | tarradiddle, n: |
Diddle
(gcide) | Diddle \Did"dle\, v. i. [Cf. Daddle.]
To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] --Quarles.
[1913 Webster]Diddle \Did"dle\, v. t. [Perh. from AS. dyderian to deceive, the
letter r being changed to l.]
To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] --Beaconsfield.
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Diddler
(gcide) | Diddler \Did"dler\, n.
A cheat. [Colloq.]
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Jeremy Diddler, a character in a play by James Kenney,
entitled "Raising the wind." The name is applied to any
needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence man.
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Jeremy Diddler
(gcide) | Diddler \Did"dler\, n.
A cheat. [Colloq.]
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Jeremy Diddler, a character in a play by James Kenney,
entitled "Raising the wind." The name is applied to any
needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence man.
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paradiddle
(gcide) | paradiddle \paradiddle\ n.
The sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly
and continuously.
Syn: roll, drum roll.
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diddley
(wn) | diddley
n 1: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn:
jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat,
diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat,
shit] |
paradiddle
(wn) | paradiddle
n 1: the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten
rapidly and continuously [syn: paradiddle, roll, {drum
roll}] |
taradiddle
(wn) | taradiddle
n 1: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach";
"how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn:
fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
2: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle] |
tarradiddle
(wn) | tarradiddle
n 1: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach";
"how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn:
fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
2: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle] |
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