Meanings
nounJeremy Diddler (plural Jeremy Diddlers)
plural Jeremy Diddlers
- datedA needy, artful dealer; a confidence man.
The Jeremy Diddlers will have designs upon your purse; the politicians upon your influence; and mammas, who have marriageable daughters, upon your person
1854, Lucien Bonaparte Chase, English Serfdom and American Slavery
Origin
Name of a character in Raising the Wind, an 1803 play by James Kenney.
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