Daddled vs Diddled - What's the difference?
daddled | diddled |
(daddle)
(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
*1869 , Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins
*:I had to wait an hour at the station for the coming of his train. It was passed pleasantly in reading, ' The Victory Won,' an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle arrived, he and I daddled along a pretty narrow lane.
To diddle (cheat)
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
(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
(slang, childish) The penis.
* 2011 , L. R. Baker, Wingnut: Operation Payback (page 104)
to cheat; to swindle
to have sex with
to masturbate (especially of women)
to waste time
To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
* Frances Quarles
As verbs the difference between daddled and diddled
is that daddled is (daddle) while diddled is (diddle).daddled
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Verb
(head)daddle
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Verb
- "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."
Derived terms
* diddle-daddlediddled
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Verb
(head)diddle
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Noun
(en noun)- Paul was the first one to unzip his pants, take out his diddle , and make himself ready to pee on the wire.
Verb
(en-verb)- And, when his forward strength began to bloom, / To see him diddle up and down the Room!