Definition of Diddering

1. didder [v] - See also: didder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diddering

didactylous
didactyls
didakai
didakais
didakei
didakeis
didal
didanosine
didapper
didappers
didascalar
didascalic
didder
diddered
diddering (current term)
didders
diddest
diddicoy
diddicoys
diddier
diddies
diddiest
diddle-daddle
diddle-daddled
diddle-daddles
diddle-daddling
diddled
diddler

Literary usage of Diddering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... in a ' diddering,' or trembling state. Wh. 61. ; gen. Also didder, sb. ¡ Л;г/ yaal' aon- u did-'ur], I am all a-tromble. Dike [da'yk, daa'k], sb., т.п., ..."

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School by Alois Brandl (1887)
"... and not as the vegetating, dreaming, diddering, would-be oracular old man, as he] appears in all vivd voce repeals, and in Carlyle's description. ..."

3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1797)
"... Then, diddering down, and graz'd with many a wound, Reach'd the dank bottom of the moat profound. One deed was done ; but forer toils remain ..."

4. The White Man in Nigeria by George Douglas Hazzledine (1904)
"That was how Paddy found his brother—worn and wasted to a skeleton, grinning and diddering, chained to a corpse. Wounded in the attack on the village away ..."

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