diddle
verb
[ ˈdɪd(ə)l ]
• cheat or swindle (someone) so as to deprive them of something.
• "he thought he'd been diddled out of his change"
• pass time aimlessly or unproductively.
• "I felt sorry for her, diddling around in her room while her friends were having a good time"
• have sex with (someone).
Origin:
early 19th century: probably from the name of Jeremy Diddler, a character in the farce Raising the Wind (1803) by the Irish dramatist James Kenney (1780–1849). Diddler constantly borrowed and failed to repay small sums of money: the name may be based on an earlier verb diddle ‘walk unsteadily’.
