Fiddle vs Diddle - What's the difference?
fiddle | diddle |
(music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.
A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher ) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
A fraud; a scam.
(nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects falling off at sea. (Also fiddle rail )
To play aimlessly.
* Samuel Pepys
To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
(music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
* Francis Bacon
(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
In lang=en terms the difference between fiddle and diddle
is that fiddle is to play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style while diddle is 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.fiddle
English
(wikipedia fiddle)Noun
(en noun)- When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.
- That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
Synonyms
* (instrument) violinDerived terms
* fiddle brake * fiddle factor * fiddle-faddle * fiddlehead * fiddly * first fiddle * fit as a fiddle * lead fiddle * second fiddleSee also
* crowd, crwthVerb
(fiddl)- Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.
- You're fiddling your life away.
- I needed to fiddle the lighting parameters to get the image to look right.
- Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.
- Themistocles said he could not fiddle , but he could make a small town a great city.
Synonyms
* (to adjust in order to cover a basic flaw) fudgeDerived terms
* fiddle about * fiddle around * fiddle the books * fiddle with * fiddlerSee also
* fritterdiddle
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!