diddle

ˈdɪdəl

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#1·6h ago

(music, countable) 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.

Paul was the first one to unzip his pants, take out his diddle, and make himself ready to pee on the wire.

Origin: From dialectal to trick (16th century), and diddle, to totter (17th century), perhaps dissimilated from dialectal didder, dither, from and , from , bedyderian. Compare also , , bedotten, . Possibly influenced or reinforced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803). Meanings "to have sex with" and "to molest" are from the 19th century, the latter reinforced by the name of rapper P. Diddy; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare dildo. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·6h ago

(slang, childish, countable) The penis.

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(transitive, slang) To cheat; to swindle.

'No one ever got rich being honest,' the father said. 'Customers are there to be diddled.'

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