diddle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: diddle	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for diddle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
diddle v 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" Synonym(s): victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con 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" Synonym(s): toy, fiddle, diddle, play
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Diddle \Did"dle\, v. i. [Cf. {Daddle}.] To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] --Quarles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Diddle \Did"dle\, v. t. [Perh. from AS. dyderian to deceive, the letter r being changed to l.] To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] --Beaconsfield.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
diddle 1. vt. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. "I diddled a copy of {ADVENT} so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away." See {tweak} and {twiddle}. 2. n. The action or result of diddling. See also {tweak}, {twiddle}, {frob}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
diddle 1. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. "I diddled a copy of {ADVENT} so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away." See {tweak} and {twiddle}. 2. The action or result of diddling. See also {tweak}, {twiddle}, {frob}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-31)