different between cheat vs daddle
cheat
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?i?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English cheten, an aphetic variant of acheten, escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswican.
Verb
cheat (third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated)
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
- Synonym: break the rules
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
- (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- Synonyms: belirt, blench, lirt
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete, escheat (“the reversion of property to the state if there are no legal claimants”), from Anglo-Norman escheat, Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excad?, from Latin ex + cad? (“I fall”).
Noun
cheat (plural cheats)
- Someone who cheats.
- Synonym: (informal) cheater
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- Synonyms: fraud, trick, imposition, imposture
- The weed cheatgrass.
- (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- Synonyms: bullshit, BS, I doubt it
- (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- 1992, Phil Howard, Cheat Mode (in Amstrad Action issue 76, January 1992, page 32)
- I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]
- 1992, Phil Howard, Cheat Mode (in Amstrad Action issue 76, January 1992, page 32)
Synonyms
- double play
Translations
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? French: cheat
- ? German: Cheat
Further reading
- cheat (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, chate, he-cat, tache, teach, theca
French
Etymology
English cheat
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?it/
Noun
cheat m (plural cheats)
- (video games) cheat
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daddle
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?dæd??/
Etymology 1
Probably dade +? -le.
Verb
daddle (third-person singular simple present daddles, present participle daddling, simple past and past participle daddled)
- (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
- 1869, Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins
- I had to wait an hour at the station for the coming of his train. It was passed pleasantly in reading, ' The Victory Won,' an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle arrived, he and I daddled along a pretty narrow lane.
- 1869, Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins
- To diddle (cheat)
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Etymology 2
Noun
daddle (plural daddles)
- (slang, obsolete) The hand or fist; used in the phrase "tip us your daddle" meaning "give me your hand".
Derived terms
- diddle-daddle
- tip the daddle
Anagrams
- addled
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