Crossword-Solution: DIDDLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diddle | v. i. | To totter, as a child in walking. |
| Diddle | v. t. | To cheat or overreach. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIDDLE | anagram | LIDDED |
We have 32 clues for the answer “DIDDLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cheat (colloquially) | 1 answer |
| With "around," waste time | 1 answer |
| Similar to swindle | 1 answer |
| Rook carried out and led off | 1 answer |
| Dance jerkily: Colloq. | 1 answer |
| Cheat with a con | 1 answer |
| Relieve (of) | 2 answers |
| Toy (with) | 7 answers |
| chouse | 8 answers |
| Embezzle | 14 answers |
| Loll | 16 answers |
| Double-cross | 16 answers |
| cozen | 23 answers |
| Gammon | 26 answers |
| Delude | 33 answers |
| Loiter | 34 answers |
| Tarry | 34 answers |
| Jerking | 34 answers |
| gyp | 37 answers |
| Rob | 40 answers |
| Defraud | 41 answers |
| *Hoodwink | 43 answers |
| bilk | 45 answers |
| Fleece | 48 answers |
| Waste Time | 56 answers |
| Bubble | 61 answers |
| Bamboozle | 62 answers |
| Lazy | 62 answers |
| Swindle | 67 answers |
| Dupe | 75 answers |
| fiddle | 78 answers |
| Cheat | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIDDLE (5)
This usage inspired the following doggerel: Hey, diddle, diddle The overflow pdl To get a little more stack; If that's not enough Then you lose it all, And have to pop all the way back.
THE TRUE STORY OF THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE Hey, diddle, diddle! The cat and the fiddle! He played such a merry tune, That the cow went mad With the pleasure she had, And jumped right over the moon.
The little dog hearkened, So loud that he barkened, “There's nothing like it, there isn't.” Hey, diddle, diddle! Went the cat and the fiddle, Hey diddle, diddle, dee, dee! The dog laughed at the sport Till his cough cut him short, It was hey diddle, diddle, oh me! And back came the cow With a merry, merry low, For she'd humbled the man in the moon.
Said, “O Moon there you are!” Got into her car, And went off with the spoon in his pocket Hey ho! diddle, diddle! The wet cat and wet fiddle, They made such a caterwauling, That the cow in a fright Stood bolt upright Bellowing now, and bawling; And the dog on his tail, Stretched his neck with a wail.
But it must be very pretty nonsense, and not like that silly hey diddle diddle! the cat and the fiddle! I wish I could get it out of my head.
Quotes with DIDDLE (2)
Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of you…
Right! Let's get on with it! All right... you... Will... have trained as apprentice to Ranger Halt of Redmont Fief these last five twelvemonths and blah blah blah and so on and so on. You've shown the necessary level of proficiency in the use of the weapons a Ranger uses- the longbow, the saxe knife, the throwing knife." He paused and glanced up Halt. "He has shown the proficiency, hasn't he? Of course he has," he went on, before Halt could answer. "Furthermore, you are a tru…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1951–2013).