diddle

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed.
2. (childish, countable, slang) The penis.
3. (slang, uncountable) Gin (the drink).

Verb

1. (slang, transitive) To cheat; to swindle.
2. (slang, transitive) To molest.
3. (slang, transitive) To masturbate.
4. (transitive) To waste time.
5. (intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
6. (slang, transitive) To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).

Intj

A meaningless word used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.

Synonyms

swindle

cheat

defraud

deceive

con

gip

gyp

fiddle

fool

trick

fleece

victimize

play

delude

bilk

beguile

hornswoggle

bunco

mulct

nobble

bamboozle

goldbrick

gull

rook

scam

short-change

cozen

sting

dally

hoodwink

toy

toy with

dawdle

decieve

fiddle with

pull a fast one

trick someone

dilly dally

con into

con out of

befool

bite

do

dupe

euchre

fraud

have on

hoax

hocus

inveigle

Translations

estafar

escroquer

duper

beschwindeln

schummeln

embaucar

aldatmak

rouler

imbrogliare

frauder

xapandin

trapacear

übers Ohr hauen

jugar

dolandırmak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɪdəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dideren

Inherited from Middle English: bididren

Inherited from Old English: bedidrian

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: diedelje

Cognate with Dutch: bedodden

In summary

From dialectal duddle (“to trick”) (16th century), and diddle, duddle (“to totter”) (17th century), perhaps dissimilated from dialectal didder, dither (“to shake, tremble”), from Middle English dideren (“to shake, quiver, tremble”) and Middle English bididren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to trick, deceive”). Compare also Saterland Frisian diedelje (“to play or sing without a melody”), Dutch bedodden, bedotten (“to trick, fool, diddle”), German Low German Diedeldentjes (“pranks, pranking”). Possibly influenced or reinforced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803).
Meanings "to have sex with" and "to molest" are from the 19th century, the latter reinforced by the name of rapper P. Diddy; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare dildo.