What's the difference between diddle and riddle?

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.

Riddle


Definition:

  • (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
  • (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
  • (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
  • (v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
  • (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
  • (v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
  • (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
  • (2) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
  • (3) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
  • (4) He admitted, however, that he had not been able to find any record of this incident on the police computer and Mr Justice Riddle said that the evidence was "third-hand, anonymous hearsay".
  • (5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
  • (6) Mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.
  • (7) I just think of when I dressed Tom and brushed his hair when his remains were returned to me, his body riddled with bullet holes.
  • (8) These counter-transferential concerns ultimately made the woman's psychological essence an unknowable riddle for Freud.
  • (9) But it was not smart to tell Jemima Khan that the new-look Tory party was "riddled with gays".
  • (10) What they say "You are an enigma wrapped in a riddle nestled in a sesame seed bun of mystery" – Stephen Colbert
  • (11) The response of the authorities is riddled with contradictions.
  • (12) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur apartment in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
  • (13) The dog shit – once warm, then frozen hard, and currently melting in the sun into pools of bacteria-riddled goop – and the used condoms and the defrosting vomit, the artifact of what some drunken bros ate on a wild February night preserved for the bottom of my shoe many weeks later.
  • (14) Police have carried out a series of operations against the Russian mafia and its money-laundering operations in Spain's corruption-riddled property sector over the past four years.
  • (15) She’s riddled with guilt now she sees that nothing has changed.
  • (16) The study reveals that while general awareness of AIDS is fairly good, detailed knowledge is riddled with misconceptions and confusion.
  • (17) Quite why Scotland Yard should behave like this remains unproved – another riddle waiting to be solved.
  • (18) Narendra Modi’s India, while growing quickly, remains riddled with uninvestigated corruption scandals .
  • (19) How apt that terms of bigotry should be riddled with class snobbery.
  • (20) The more serious riddle for the government is: how on earth did this policy get through in the first place?

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