Jeremy Diddler
English
Etymology
Name of a character in Raising the Wind, an 1803 play by James Kenney.
Noun
Jeremy Diddler (plural Jeremy Diddlers)
- (dated) A needy, artful dealer; a confidence man.
- 1854, Lucien Bonaparte Chase, English Serfdom and American Slavery:
- The Jeremy Diddlers will have designs upon your purse; the politicians upon your influence; and mammas, who have marriageable daughters, upon your person
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Related terms
- diddle
References
- diddler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913