English-Thai Dictionary

diddle

VT โกง (คำ สแลง  ฉ้อโกง  decieve gip gyp fleece swindle kong

 

diddle out of

PHRV ฉ้อโกง  โกง  หลอก เอา (เงิน หรือ ของ  cheat out of chor-kong

 

diddler

N คน หลอกลวง 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIDDLE

v.i.To totter, as a child in walking.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIDDLE

Did "dle, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Daddle. ]

 

Defn: To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs. ] Quarles.

 

DIDDLE

Did "dle, v. t. Etym: [Perh. from AS. dyderian to deceive, the letter r being changed to l.]

 

Defn: To cheat or overreach. [Colloq. ] Beaconsfield.

 

DIDDLER

DIDDLER Did "dler, n.

 

Defn: A cheat. [Colloq. ] Jeremy Diddler, a character in a play by James Kenney, entitled "Raising the wind. " The name is applied to any needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence man.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

diddle

did dle |ˈdidl ˈdɪdl | ▶verb informal 1 [ with obj. ] (usu. be diddled ) cheat or swindle (someone ) so as to deprive them of something: he thought he'd been diddled out of his change. • deliberately falsify (something ): he diddled his income tax returns. 2 [ no obj. ] informal pass time aimlessly or unproductively: why diddle around with slow costly tests? • (diddle with ) play or mess with: he diddled with the graphics on his computer. 3 [ with obj. ] vulgar slang have sexual intercourse with (someone ). [originally in Scots dialect use in the sense ‘jerk from side to side, ’ apparently corresponding to dialect didder ‘tremble. ’] DERIVATIVES did dler noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: probably from the name of Jeremy Diddler, a character in the farce Raising the Wind (1803 ) by the Irish dramatist James Kenney (1780 –1849 ). Diddler constantly borrowed and failed to repay small sums of money: the name may have been based on an earlier verb diddle ‘walk unsteadily, swerve. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

diddle

did ¦dle |ˈdɪd (ə )l | ▶verb informal 1 [ with obj. ] cheat or swindle (someone ) so as to deprive them of something: he thought he'd been diddled out of his change. • deliberately falsify: he diddled his income tax returns. 2 [ no obj. ] chiefly N. Amer. pass time aimlessly or unproductively: I felt sorry for her, diddling around in her room while her friends were having a good time. 3 [ with obj. ] vulgar slang, chiefly N. Amer. (of a man ) have sexual intercourse with. [originally in Scots dialect use in the sense ‘jerk from side to side ’, apparently corresponding to dialect didder ‘tremble ’.] DERIVATIVES diddler noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: probably from the name of Jeremy Diddler, a character in the farce Raising the Wind (1803 ) by the Irish dramatist James Kenney (1780 –1849 ). Diddler constantly borrowed and failed to repay small sums of money: the name may be based on an earlier verb diddle ‘walk unsteadily ’.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

diddle

did dle /dɪ́d (ə )l /動詞 他動詞 ｟主に英 くだけて ｠1 〈人 〉をだます ; 【金などを 】〈人 〉からだまし取る «out of » ; …を偽る .2 〈時間 〉を浪費する .自動詞 ｟主に米 ｠時間を浪費する ; あてもなくぶらぶら歩き回る .