Lexicographical Neighbors of Diddering
Literary usage of Diddering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... in a ' diddering,' or trembling state. Wh. 61. ; gen. Also didder, sb. ¡ Л;г/
yaal' aon- u did-'ur], I am all a-tromble. Dike [da'yk, daa'k], sb., т.п., ..."
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School by Alois Brandl (1887)
"... and not as the vegetating, dreaming, diddering, would-be oracular old man, as
he] appears in all vivd voce repeals, and in Carlyle's description. ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1797)
"... Then, diddering down, and graz'd with many a wound, Reach'd the dank bottom
of the moat profound. One deed was done ; but forer toils remain ..."
4. The White Man in Nigeria by George Douglas Hazzledine (1904)
"That was how Paddy found his brother—worn and wasted to a skeleton, grinning and
diddering, chained to a corpse. Wounded in the attack on the village away ..."
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