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UK
/dˈɪdəl/
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VERB
-
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 -
deprive of by deceit
He swindled me out of my inheritance
She defrauded the customers who trusted her
How To Use diddle In A Sentence
- He was only on the way to being "diddled" in 1822, but the prophecy (suggested, no doubt, by the announcement of the sale of furniture, etc., at Wanstead The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
- And it wasn't just the UN and governments that diddled.
- The first two bios in the series are available: Bo Diddley here, Chuck Berry here.
- A trip up the Thames from Southend-On-Sea to the Houses of Parliament provides him with many fine opportunities to indulge in his own idiosyncratic brand of taradiddles and horseplay.
- They diddled their insurance company by making a false claim.
- I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
- It was no big deal loading the program, and I diddled around with it for an hour or so.
- I seem to recall she was the one who diddled me out of 10 quid some time back.
- As we fiddle, and diddle and argue about this issue, it is going on in places like Europe and China and India and we could be falling behind here.
- What we want now is a bit of a focus by the estate agencies on how they can make sure that the environment doesn't get diddled in this process of opening our water market.