different between raddle vs daddle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æd?l/
• Rhymes: -æd?l

Etymology 1

From a variation of reddle, ruddle. Related to red.

Noun

raddle (countable and uncountable, plural raddles)

1. A red ochre.

Synonyms

• reddle
• ruddle

Translations

Verb

raddle (third-person singular simple present raddles, present participle raddling, simple past and past participle raddled)

1. To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
2. To interweave or twist together.

   • raddling or working it up like basket work

3. To do work in a slovenly way.

Synonyms

• reddle
• ruddle

Translations

See also

• ruddy
• raddled

Etymology 2

From earlier radel, redle (noun), and ruddle (verb), perhaps a transposition of hurdle or an alteration of riddle (“curtain”).

Noun

raddle (plural raddles)

1. A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
2. A hedge or fence made with raddles.

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3. An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

Synonyms

• (weavers' tool): evener, niffler

Anagrams

• Aldred, ladder, larded

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)

1. (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.

2. 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."

Etymology 2

Noun

daddle (plural daddles)

1. (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