Diddle vs Dawdle - What's the difference?
diddle | dawdle |
(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
To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 29
, author=Neil Johnston
, title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn
, work=BBC Sport
* Johnson
To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
To move or walk lackadaisically.
* Thackeray
In transitive terms the difference between diddle and dawdle
is that diddle is to waste time while dawdle is to spend (time) without haste or purpose.In intransitive terms the difference between diddle and dawdle
is that diddle is to totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle while dawdle is to move or walk lackadaisically.diddle
English
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!
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAnagrams
*dawdle
English
Verb
(dawdl)citation, page= , passage=However all Hennessey's good work went to waste on 52 minutes when he dawdled on the ball.}}
- Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
- to dawdle away the whole morning
- If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
- We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.