| 释义 |
diddle
noun- an act of masturbation US
From conventional “diddle” (to jerk from side to side). - “You can keep the twenty [dollars].” “Do you want a diddle for it?” “No!” — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 94, 2001
- a swindle, a deception UK, 1803
- The Bath affair was the first “dial a diddle” fraud investigators had cracked. — Youth International Party Line, p. 4, December 1972
- gin UK
- — Attitude, p. 60, July 2003: “Old palare lexicon”
▶ on the diddle
engaged in swindling UK
From DIDDLEON THE FIDDLE[I]t would have been the sack if he had hard proof that we’d been on the diddle. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 108, 2001 |