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Difference Between Diddle and Kiddle

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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

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