Diddle Definition
(music) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed.
(slang, childish) The penis.
Origin of Diddle
From dialectal duddle, "to trick" (16th century), "to totter" (17th century); perhaps influenced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803). Meaning "to have sex with" is from the 19th century, "to masturbate" is 1950's.
From Wiktionary
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Probably alteration of dialectal didder to quiver, tremble from Middle English dideren variant of daderen, doderen dodder1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Perhaps akin to Old English dydrian to deceive, or from variant of dialectal doodle fool, simpleton Low German dudeldopp
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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