daddle

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdædəɫ/

Etymology 1

Probably dade + -le. Compare English doddle.

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Verb

daddle (third-person singular simple present daddles, present participle daddling, simple past and past participle daddled)

  1. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
    • 1869, Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins:
      I had to wait an hour at the station for the coming of his train. It was passed pleasantly in reading, ' The Victory Won,' an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle arrived, he and I daddled along a pretty narrow lane.
  2. To diddle (cheat)
    • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
      "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."

Noun

daddle (plural daddles)

  1. (slang, obsolete) The hand or fist; used in the phrase "tip us your daddle" meaning "give me your hand".
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