diddle
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Don’t forget to say “Hey, diddle, diddle” to the park’s furry occupants, which include three not-so-little Vietnamese potbellied pigs, two of Mary’s sheep, a floppy-eared Peter Rabbit and a friendly miniature donkey dubbed Eeyore.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2018
You diddle a lot of people on small amounts, you’ve got a lot of money, and until we had C.F.P.B., there was virtually no defense for people against this massive, small-bore fraud abuse.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
Well, I can wait no longer sit by and diddle while my fellow media figures prevaricate and whinge.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2016
Subsidies, which run into the hundreds of millions annually, not only diddle the taxpayer, they encourage overgrazing.
From Economist ● Apr. 24, 2014
Hey, diddle, diddle, the dish ran away with the spoon.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
Kecmanovic, though, wins four points in a row ... only to be diddled by an incredible lob; deuce it is, then again when Monfils nails a blazing forehand.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2022
Since the restart, they’ve been diddled by technology at Aston Villa, and have recovered from back-to-back three-goal setbacks to pick up seven of the last nine points on offer.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2020
Drogba should have had the chance to make amends the following season, but Chelsea were diddled by some preposterous refereeing decisions in the Champions League semi against Barcelona.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2015
His painful efforts to earn enough money to buy the land end in his being diddled out of both land and money.
From Time Magazine Archive
Guyard the Green, who fancied himself a singer, diddled a harp and gave them a verse about tying lions' tails in knots, parts of which rhymed.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Alfred sat in his room, wheezing away on his accordion, diddling its buttons, dutifully memorizing polkas and waltzes and marches and the “Mexican Hat Dance.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
I suspect that she glares at her mobile day and night, texting, diddling with apps or whatever, never really off duty.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2016
“I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering,” Mr. Cuomo said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2015
National Anthem time: Pretty routine stuff, Paraguay's has plenty of peaks and troughs and a fair bit of diddling that hints at the end before it comes.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2010
But on that first morning, when he came round to see me, we somehow succeeded in diddling one another, because we were each so anxious to shield the other and hush it all up….
From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
