The word of the day was:

�diddle�  (What a wonderful, useful, controversial word)

Here are the primary definitions for diddle:

1) deprive of by deceit

2) deliberately falsify

3) manipulate manually or in one �s mind or imagination

4) spend time ineffectually; procrastinate

5) move with short rapid motions

6) To play experimentally; toy

7) Have sexual intercourse

8) To practice masturbation upon

and here are some synonyms for diddle (not that I agree with all of them):

act, ball, bamboozle, be intimate, beat, beguile, beguile of, beguile the time, bet, betray, bilk, bluff, bring, bum (around), bunco, burn, burn daylight, cabbage, cajole, cheat, cheat on, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, cohabit, come together, commit adultery, con, conjure, consume time, copulate, couple, cover, cozen, crib, dabble, dally, dawdle, deceive, defraud, delude, dillydally, do, do in, do out of, doodle, double-cross, drone, dupe, euchre, fanny about, fiddle, finagle, filch, flam, fleece, flimflam, flirt, fob, footle, forestall, fornicate, fribble, frig, fritter away time, fudge, gammon, get around, gouge, goldbrick, gull, gyp, have, have intercourse, have sex, have sexual relations, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug, juggle, kill time, lag, lallygag, lay, laze, let down, lie with, lift, linger, loaf, loiter, loll, lollygag, lose time, lounge, make it with, make love, make out, make whoopee, masturbate, mate, mock, monkey with, mount, mulct, nobble, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pack the deal, pass the time, piddle, pigeon, pilfer, pinch, play one false, poke, potter, practice fraud upon, put something over, putter, rook, run, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, serve, service, shave, shirk, short-change, sleep with, snarf, snatch, snow, spiel, stack the cards, stick, sting, string along, swindle, swipe,  take, take a dive, take in, tamper, thimblerig, throw a fight, tinker, toy with, trick, trifle, two-time, varnish, victimize, wager, waste time

and the winner is�.. some chose the deliberate definition, others chose not to define it, and still others chose the �nonsensical� route�in the end I chose the one that seemed to take the most brain work�

Maryse is our winner, congratulations!