Third-person singular present tense of 'diddle'; he/she/it cheats or wastes time, or plural noun meaning multiple trivial things.
From 'diddle' with the third-person singular present suffix '-s,' showing the base form of the verb in present tense with singular subjects.
The ambiguity between verb and noun forms is typical of English—'she diddles' (verb) versus 'those diddles' (noun)—and speakers navigate these homographs effortlessly through context!
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