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Definition of Diddles
1. diddle [v] - See also: diddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diddles
Literary usage of Diddles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe (1902)
"Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man. ...
A crow thieves; a fox cheats; a weasel outwits; a man diddles. ..."
2. The Diddler by A. E. Senter, James Kenney (1868)
"Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
It will take an entire hen-coop of picked chickens to get over that. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"... says: "There is an appearance in advertisements of a burlesque by somebody of
fashion, who has written • Arthur ; or, The Hi-diddle-diddles of the King. ..."
4. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Newly Collected and Edited, with a Memoir by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodberry (1894)
"... diddling, in itself — but man, as an animal that diddles. Had Plato but hit
upon this, he would have been spared the affront of the picked chicken. ..."
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