verb (old).—To purloin or steal. [From Latin con, a pleonastic prefix, + DIDDLE, ‘to cheat.’ CONDIDDLED is quoted by Grose in the Provincial Glossary, 1787, as signifying ‘dispersed.’]
1824. SCOTT, St. Ronan’s Well, ch. iv. ‘Twig the old connoissour,’ said the Squire to the Knight, ‘he is CONDIDDLING the drawing.’
