Diddle vs. Kiddle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Diddle and Kiddle
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Definitions
Diddle
(Slang) To cheat; swindle
"The Swiss have special laws for people who diddle hotels" (John le Carré).
Kiddle
A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.
Diddle
To jerk up and down or back and forth.
Kiddle
A kind of basketwork weir in a river, for catching fish.
Diddle
To have intercourse with (a woman).
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Diddle
To practice masturbation upon.
Diddle
To shake rapidly; jiggle.
Diddle
(Slang) To play experimentally; toy
The children diddled with the knobs on the television all afternoon.
Diddle
(Slang) To waste time
Diddled around all morning.
Diddle
(music) 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.
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Diddle
The penis.
Diddle
To cheat; to swindle.
Diddle
To molest.
Diddle
To masturbate (especially of women).
Diddle
(transitive) To waste time.
Diddle
(intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
Diddle
To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits binary digits.
Diddle
A meaningless word used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
What's that tune that goes "diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum-dum"?
Diddle
To totter, as a child in walking.
Diddle
To cheat or overreach.
Diddle
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
Diddle
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