'Diddle' definitions:
Definition of 'diddle'
From: WordNet
verb
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" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
verb
Definition of 'Diddle'
From: GCIDE
- Diddle \Did"dle\, v. i. [Cf. Daddle.] To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] --Quarles. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Diddle'
From: GCIDE
- Diddle \Did"dle\, v. t. [Perh. from AS. dyderian to deceive, the letter r being changed to l.] To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] --Beaconsfield. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'diddle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ball,
- bamboozle,
- be intimate,
- beat,
- beguile,
- beguile of,
- beguile the time,
- betray,
- bilk,
- bluff,
- bunco,
- burn,
- burn daylight,
- cajole,
- cheat,
- cheat on,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- circumvent,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- cohabit,
- come together,
- commit adultery,
- con,
- conjure,
- consume time,
- copulate,
- couple,
- cover,
- cozen,
- crib,
- dabble,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- deceive,
- defraud,
- delude,
- dillydally,
- do,
- do in,
- do out of,
- doodle,
- double-cross,
- drone,
- dupe,
- euchre,
- finagle,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- fob,
- footle,
- forestall,
- fornicate,
- fribble,
- frig,
- fritter away time,
- fudge,
- gammon,
- get around,
- gouge,
- gull,
- gyp,
- have,
- have sex,
- have sexual relations,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- hornswaggle,
- humbug,
- juggle,
- kill time,
- lag,
- lallygag,
- lay,
- laze,
- let down,
- lie with,
- linger,
- loaf,
- loiter,
- loll,
- lollygag,
- lose time,
- lounge,
- make it with,
- make love,
- make out,
- mate,
- mock,
- mount,
- mulct,
- outmaneuver,
- outreach,
- outsmart,
- outwit,
- overreach,
- pack the deal,
- pass the time,
- piddle,
- pigeon,
- play one false,
- poke,
- potter,
- practice fraud upon,
- put something over,
- putter,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- sell gold bricks,
- serve,
- service,
- shave,
- shortchange,
- sleep with,
- snow,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- string along,
- swindle,
- take,
- take a dive,
- take in,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- trick,
- trifle,
- two-time,
- victimize,
- waste time