What's the difference between diddle and piddle?

Diddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking.
  • (v. t.) To cheat or overreach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.00pm BST 14 min: Commons tries to trick the keeper by cracking a freekick in at the near post rather than crossing, but you have to get up earlier than that to diddle Smokin' Mokin, who beats the ball away acrobatically.
  • (2) The ministerial batting partnership of Cable and Fallon played a straight bat to claims that the investment banks diddled the government, and were aggressive in categorically disputing that taxpayers lost out.
  • (3) The Scottish Labour party said the deficit destroyed the Scottish National party's case that the country was being "diddled" by the rest of the UK and underlined the importance for Scotland of remaining in the union to share risks and rewards.
  • (4) Updated at 11.42pm BST 11.05pm BST ET 6 min: Robben shows a bit of rare ambition, his toes twinkling down the right, diddling Demichelis and winning a corner.
  • (5) Aguero diddles across the QPR area from the left, and then slips a pass through to Tevez.
  • (6) 3 min: From a corner, Benzema picks up the ball on the edge of the Rangers box, thinks about a shot, then checks and feeds Baros, who so nearly diddles Papac down the right.
  • (7) "This shows the huge economic benefits of Scotland working in partnership with the rest of the UK and explodes the myth that somehow Scotland's finances are being diddled by the club we are part of," he said.
  • (8) 35 min: Bendtner diddles down the right and loops the ball into the six-yard area.
  • (9) Anita diddles around down the right, reaching the byline and laying off for Gutierrez, whose cross is guided away from danger by Hart.
  • (10) 5.42pm GMT 82 min: Suarez diddles his way into the Chelsea area on the left but he's crowded out.
  • (11) 8.24pm BST 23 min: Snodgrass diddles around on the edge of the England area, and should be awarded a free kick, Gerrard coming through the back of him.
  • (12) 21 min: Fucile and Alvaro Pereira diddle down the left.
  • (13) 2.58pm BST In the women's final, the wonderful, wondrous Serena Williams diddled Sara Errani 6-3, 6-0.
  • (14) Nasri diddles his way in from the left and thumps one goalwards from 20 yards out.
  • (15) 6.48pm GMT 60 min: That was incredibly poor judgement from Lovren there, who was diddled all ends up by Suarez.
  • (16) 1.31pm GMT 45 min: Simpson diddles Clichy down the right and swings one to the far post, where Cisse causes enough bother to win a corner.
  • (17) 6.35pm BST 78 min: Messi dances and diddles into the area down the inside left.

Piddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.
  • (v. i.) To be squeamishly nice about one's food.
  • (v. i.) To urinate; -- child's word.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I'd be piddling myself laughing and couldn't get myself together, meaning there were many retakes.
  • (2) A pugnacious Nick Clegg really got the Remain side going when he accused outers of behaving as if Britain was just “a piddling little island”, always being bullied by Brussels.
  • (3) Why would she give up her cosy life as a columnist and novelist working from home in Notting Hill to be editor of a title she described in the documentary as "a piddling magazine no one cares about or buys"?
  • (4) Hunt is locked into a no-win confrontation about a piddling amount of cash that – if the ballot that goes out tomorrow supports strike action, as it looks as if it will – could cost hundreds of lives.
  • (5) We do the best we can all day, every day to produce great product on piddling budgets and they call that success.
  • (6) That the Thames triumphed over competition from the mighty Amazon and idyllic rural waterways such as the Piddle in Dorset, can be explained by the prize's focus on restored and well-managed rivers.
  • (7) Aside from that, we see only two solutions: grab our culture by the lapels and convince everyone it’s fine to sit down for five piddling little minutes to have a coffee, or convince people to go down the reusable route.
  • (8) But the culture budget is pretty piddling anyway and transport argues that it is supposed to deliver a lot of the infrastructure spending that the coalition is now committed to increasing.
  • (9) Later she says of the title: "In the real world this is a piddling little magazine that nobody cares about.
  • (10) "The Piddle and the Amazon don't have those environmental pressures – the sewage, the industry."