Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To play unskilfully, as on the violin.
- To wander aimlessly or feebly from place to place.
- To work constantly without making much progress.
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Examples
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Wha used to trysts an 'fairs to driddle, [markets, toddle]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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_Crummock driddle_, walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.
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Wha us’d to trystes and fairs to driddle,” prefers the practical to the merely musical man.
George Cruikshank 2006
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Wha us'd to trystes and fairs to driddle, "prefers the practical to the merely musical man.
George Cruikshank William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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