English Explanatory Dictionary

Jeremy Diddler

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A needy, artful dealer; a confidence man.

Word forms

Jeremy Diddler Jeremy Diddlers

Etymology

Name of a character in Raising the Wind, an 1803 play by James Kenney.

Related words

diddle
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