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diddle-daddle

diddle-daddle verb: to dilly-dally.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To dilly-dally

Forms of diddle-daddle

third-person singular presentdiddle-daddles
present participlediddle-daddling
past participlediddle-daddled
pastdiddle-daddled

Questions about diddle-daddle

What does diddle-daddle mean?
Diddle-daddle means to dilly-dally.
What part of speech is diddle-daddle?
Diddle-daddle is a verb.
What is the past tense of diddle-daddle?
The past tense of diddle-daddle is diddle-daddled.

Words near diddle-daddle in the dictionary

  1. diddikais
  2. diddikoi
  3. diddikois
  4. diddle
  5. diddle for middle
  6. diddle-daddle
  7. diddle-daddled
  8. diddle-daddles
  9. diddle-daddling
  10. diddle-dee
  11. Diddlebury

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