Fiddle

['fɪd(ə)l] or ['fɪdl]

Definition

(verb.) play on a violin; 'Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely'.

(verb.) play the violin or fiddle.

(verb.) commit fraud and steal from one's employer; 'We found out that she had been fiddling for years'.

(verb.) avoid (one's assigned duties); 'The derelict soldier shirked his duties'.

Checker: Sophia--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

(n.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.

(n.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.

(v. i.) To play on a fiddle.

(v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.

(v. t.) To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Violin, KIT.

v. n. [1]. Play on a fiddle.[2]. Trifle, dawdle, lose time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time, fool away time.

Typist: Wanda

Definition

n. a stringed instrument of music called also a Violin.—v.t. or v.i. to play on a fiddle: to be busy over trifles to trifle:—pr.p. fidd′ling; pa.p. fidd′led.—ns. Fidd′le-block a long block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane; Fidd′le-bow a bow strung with horse-hair with which the strings of the fiddle are set vibrating.—interjs. Fidd′le-de-dee Fidd′lestick (often pl.) nonsense!—v.i. Fidd′le-fadd′le to trifle to dally.—n. trifling talk.—adj. fussy trifling.—interj. nonsense!—n. Fidd′le-fadd′ler.—adj. Fidd′le-fadd′ling.—ns. Fidd′le-head an ornament at a ship's bow over the cut-water consisting of a scroll turning aft or inward; Fidd′ler one who fiddles: a small crab of genus Gelasimus; Fidd′le-string a string for a fiddle; Fidd′le-wood a tropical American tree yielding valuable hard wood.—adj. Fidd′ling trifling busy about trifles.—Fiddler's green a sailor's name for a place of frolic on shore.—Play first or second fiddle to take the part of the first or second violin-player in an orchestra: to take a leading or a subordinate part in anything; Scotch fiddle the itch.

Checked by Douglas

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of a fiddle, foretells harmony in the home and many joyful occasions abroad. See Violin.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Checker: Rene

Examples

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