Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Diddler"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Diddler \Did"dler\, n.
A cheat. [Colloq.]
{Jeremy Diddler}, a character in a play by James Kenney,
entitled ``Raising the wind.'' The name is applied to any
needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence man.
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