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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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faddle
English
Etymology
Compare fiddle, fiddle-faddle.
Verb
faddle (third-person singular simple present faddles, present participle faddling, simple past and past participle faddled)
- To trifle; to toy.
- (Britain, dialect) To fondle; to dandle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (to trifle): fiddle
- (to fondle): dawt, grope, pettle, tiddle; see also Thesaurus:fondle
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