"Jeremy Diddler" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Name of a character in Raising the Wind, an 1803 play by James Kenney.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1854, Lucien Bonaparte Chase, English Serfdom and American Slavery:",
          "text": "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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        "A needy, artful dealer; a confidence man."
      ],
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        [
          "artful",
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        ],
        [
          "dealer",
          "dealer"
        ],
        [
          "confidence man",
          "confidence man"
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        "(dated) A needy, artful dealer; a confidence man."
      ],
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        "James Kenney (dramatist)"
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  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
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      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "diddle"
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        {
          "ref": "1854, Lucien Bonaparte Chase, English Serfdom and American Slavery:",
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      ],
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        "A needy, artful dealer; a confidence man."
      ],
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          "needy"
        ],
        [
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        ],
        [
          "dealer",
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        ],
        [
          "confidence man",
          "confidence man"
        ]
      ],
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        "(dated) A needy, artful dealer; a confidence man."
      ],
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        "dated"
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        "James Kenney (dramatist)"
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