diddle

Etymology
From dialectal (16th century), and,  (17th century), perhaps dissimilated from dialectal , , from  and , from ,. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. Possibly influenced or reinforced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803).

Meaning "to have sex with" is from the 19th century; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  The penis.

Verb

 * 1)  To cheat; to swindle.
 * 2)  To molest.
 * 3)  To masturbate (especially of women).
 * 4)  To waste time.
 * 5)  To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
 * 6)  To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits binary digits.
 * 1)  To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits binary digits.
 * 1)  To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits binary digits.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:deceive
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:masturbate
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:loiter

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Russian: ,


 * German:

Interjection

 * What's that tune that goes "diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum-dum"?
 * What's that tune that goes "diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum-dum"?