Lexicographical Neighbors of Diddies
Literary usage of Diddies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hortus Inclusus: Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to by John Ruskin (1902)
"And here I've no Susies nor Kathleens nor diddies, and I'm only doing lots of
good, and I'm very miserable. I've been going late to bed too. ..."
2. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"diddies, sb. the breasts of a woman. Differ, sb. the difference. Dig, (1) sb.
a blow. ' I wish I had three digs at him.' (2) '.To dig with the wrong foot,' ..."
3. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"And here I've no Susies nor Kathleens nor diddies, and I'm only doing lots of
good, and I'm very miserable. I've been going late to bed too. ..."
4. La Pucelle; Or, the Maid of Orleans: A Poem, in XXI Cantos. by Voltaire, Catherine Maria Bury Charleville (1796)
"... impudence would try, To feel her diddies, or to pinch her thigh : From morn 'till
night, fhe work'd, and laugh'd, and chatter'd, Rub'd down her ..."
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