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say it: DID-uhl
diddle is a verb meaning "deprive of by deceit". It is pronounced /ˈdɪdəl/ — DID-uhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
“She played nervously with her wedding ring”
“Don't fiddle with the screws”
“He played with the idea of running for the Senate”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diddle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.