Diddle

Definition: Diddle

Diddle

Verb

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".

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:.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "diddle" was first used: 1806. (references)

Computing

Literature

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Diddle

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

I sing Hey diddle diddle ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Hey diddle diddle, I am playin' my fiddle, (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)

Hey Diddle Diddle (1935)

Hi Diddle Diddle (1927)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Diddle Your Way to Success with Women (reference)

• Hey Diddle Diddle (reference)

• Hey Diddle Diddle and Other Nursery Rhymes (reference)

• Hey Diddle, a Riddle (reference)

• Hey, Diddle Diddle (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hi Diddle Diddle (reference)

• Hi-De-Hi! - Hey Diddle Diddle (Box Set) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hey Diddle Diddle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "diddle": diddle smb. out of smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "diddle": diddle-daddle.

Containing "diddle": Nicky-picky-diddle-poo-poo, tiddle-diddle-liddle-liddle.

Albanian

mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), humb kohë, hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غش (adulterate, adulteration, bilk, cheat, cheating, copy, debase, deceit, deceive, deception, defraudation, falsify, fudge, jiggery pokery, nobble, rig, sell, short, sting, swindle), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏إبتز (blackmail, carry favor, carry favour, exact, extort, outdistance, pump, squeeze out, sting, swindle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подхлъзвам (cheat, do smb., dupe, fool, take smb. for a ride, trick), пилея си времето (doodle, idle away oneself time, peddle, piddle), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), изигравам (bamboozle, cheat, con, do smb., fob, hoodwink, let in, milk, outwit, play out, prey, sell, skin, skunk, suck in, trepan, trick, trim). (various references)

Chinese 

骗 (Rooked, Rooking). (various references)

Czech

vzít na hùl, ošulit (dupe), ošidit (beguile, cheat, con, defraud, pigeon, swindle, trick), batolit se (paddle, toddle). (various references)

Finnish

puijata (cheat, trick), huiputtaa (cheat, dupe, fool), huijata (cheat, swindle). (various references)

French

duper, escroquer, carotter. (various references)

German

beschwindeln (bamboozle, bilk, cheat, swindle, tell a fib, tell a lie). (various references)

Greek 

ξεγελώ (bamboozle, bite, deceive, delude, euchre, fake out, have on, hocus, hoodwink, inveigle, juggle, outsmart, outwit, spoof, trick), χασομερώ (dally, dawdle, dillydally, fiddle, lag, laze, loaf, loiter), εξαπατώ (beguile, bilk, cheat, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, fake out, gull, pup, swindle, thimblering, victimize). (various references)

Hungarian

rászed (bamboozle, beguile, bluff, cheat, circumvent, deceive, dupe, gull, have the bulge on sy, hoax, hoodwink, play false, swindle, take in, to abuse, to bamboozle, to bilk, to bluff, to cheat, to circumvent, to con, to cozen, to dupe, to finagle, to get the bulge on sy, to gull, to hoax, to hocus, to hocus-pocus, to hoodwink, to humbug, to jink, to let in, to pole, to put off, to scam, to shaft, to shuck, to suck sy in, to swindle, to trick, to victimize, Welch), piszmog (dilly dally, Potter, to bugger about, to bugger around, to eff about, to eff around, to fart about, to fart around, to fiddle about, to hack around, to idle over sg, to jack around, to piffle, to potter about, to screw around), becsap (cheat, chouse, deceive, delude, double cross, fob, gyp, hocus, hocus pocus, mislead, nobble, renege, slam, spoof, string along, take in, to abuse, to bang, to bilk, to bluff, to chisel, to con, to cozen, to deceive, to delude, to dupe, to finagle, to fox, to gull, to hoax, to hocus, to hocus-pocus, to hoodwink, to humbug, to jink, to keep tricking sy, to kid, to let in, to let into, to mock at sg, to nick, to nick sy for sg, to pass the buck, to pole, to put off, to renege, to rook, to scam, to shaft, to shuck, to spoof, to suck sy in, to swindle, to take in, to trick, to victimize, two time). (various references)

Italian

imbrogliare (cheat, cozen, do, embroil, entangle, entrap, fob, fool, garble, get confused, get entangled, get tangled, hocus, mix up, mystify, overreach, rook, sell, spoof, swindle, tangle, trick). (various references)

Pig Latin

iddleday.(various references)

Portuguese

vacilar (boggle, chop, crane, falter, flinch, fluctuate, hand back, hesitate, niddle-noddle, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, quail, quiver, repose, shilly-shally, shuffle, stagger, sway, teeter, toddle, totter, tremble, vacillate, waver), tropeçar (blunder, flounder, founder, stumble, trip), trapacear (bite, cheat, cog, fool, graft, palm, rip off, rook), titubear (blench, dodder, flinch, hesitate, nutate, quail, reel, stagger, toddle, totter, waver), lograr (bilk, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cod, cozen, deceive, dupe, fob, fool, fox, gammon, gouge, gyp, inveigle, jockey, let in, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, put it over, spoof, succeed, trick), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile). (various references)

Romanian

trage pe sfoarã (bilk, chisel, con, do, do brown, do the dirty, double cross, fob, fool, Fox, gammon, impose, kid, let in, nobble, take in, trick, wangle), pãcãli (cheat, deceive, do, dupe, fool, gammon, get, gull, hoax, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, nobble, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, stuff, trick, trump, twist), frige (bake, broil, burn, Fry, grill, roast, toast), cãptuşi (back, bag, board, coat, shark, sheathe, wainscot), boi (dye, paint, stature, whitewash), arde (bake, be on fire, bite, blister, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, calcine, cauterize, consume, cook, cremate, glare, glow, grill, heat, ignite, inflame, overdo, parch, roast, scald, scorch, sear, shrivel, smart, smoke, strike, tan, you are getting hot), încãlţa (shoe), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references)

Russian 

разорить дотла, халтурить (tinker with), трястись (dodder, quake, rock), облапошить, надуть (do brown, double cross, double-cross), погубить (cut down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaludno gubiti vreme, prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, set up, skunk, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), ismevati (laugh at, make fun of, mock, quiz, ridicule). (various references)

Spanish

estafar (cheat, chisel, con, fiddle, fleece, gull, gyp, rook, sharp, shortchange, swindle, take in, trick, twist). (various references)

Swedish

svindla (defraud, rook, swindle), lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, entrap, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick). (various references)

Thai

โกง (คำสแลง) (rook). (various references)

Turkish

dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), yutturmak (con, deceive, dish out, fob, fob off smth. on smb., foist, palm off, plant, put across, put off, put over, string), yerinde duramamak (be unable to contain oneself for, shuffle), vakit öldürmek (dilly dally, fiddle away, frig, frivol, hang out, horse around, trifle with), kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), kıpır kıpır olmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

ошукати (circumvent), обдурити (best, do in, head off, nobble), занапастити, піддурити. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "diddle": diddled, diddler, diddlers, diddles, diddley, diddleys. (additional references)

Words ending with "diddle": paradiddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle. (additional references)

Words containing "diddle": paradiddles, taradiddles, tarradiddles. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lidded.

-1 letter: idled.

-2 letters: deil, deli, died, diel, idle, lied.

-3 letters: del, did, die, eld, led, lei, lid, lie.

-4 letters: de, ed, el, id, li.

+1 letter: diddled, diddler, diddles, diddley, dindled, fiddled, middled, piddled, riddled, widdled.

+2 letters: diddlers, diddleys, diddlies, dwindled, griddled, twiddled.

+3 letters: decidedly, defiladed, dislodged, disploded, dividedly, unriddled.

+4 letters: blindsided, deadlifted, fiddlehead, paradiddle, sidesaddle, taradiddle.

+5 letters: blindfolded, dedicatedly, dilapidated, dogsledding, fiddleheads, paradiddles, sidesaddles, skedaddling, taradiddles, tarradiddle.