Con vs Diddle - What's the difference?
con | diddle |
(rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
* Wordsworth
* Burke
* 1963 , D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories :
(rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
* 1579 , , Iune:
to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.
A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros ).
(slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
(slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
(nautical) To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through a channel etc. (rather than steer a compass direction)
(nautical) The navigational direction of a ship
(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
As nouns the difference between con and diddle
is that con is cone while diddle is (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.As a verb diddle is
to cheat; to swindle.con
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) connen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(conn)- Fixedly did look / Upon the muddy waters which he conned / As if he had been reading in a book.
- I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson.
- The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.''
- Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- pros and cons
Synonyms
* disadvantageAntonyms
* proEtymology 3
Shortened from (convict).Etymology 4
From (con trick), shortened from (confidence trick).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(conn)Synonyms
* (to be conned) be sold a pupEtymology 5
From earlier (cond), from (etyl) conduen, from (etyl) conduire, from (etyl) .Verb
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* conning tower * take the conEtymology 6
or (conference).See also
* cone * mod consAnagrams
* English three-letter words ----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!