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'.
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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.
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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
- Here am I playing second fiddle to Miss Eliza Higgins for the amusement of her most charming man, the Earl of Fife! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Why did not his son take this lamp to Mr. Bull's office in 1892, when he took the old fiddle-bow lamps, 1, 2, and 3? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had a little fiddle, which we used to call at school a kit, under his left arm, and its little bow in the same hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As for me, the part of second fiddle being altogether new to me, I took the liberty of appearing in my morning dress. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I have brought little George some strings to mend his fiddle with and, if you will give it me, I will string it for him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Like the notes of a fiddle, you sweetly, sir, sweetly, Raises our spirits and charms our ears. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Won't he growl at all, when he hears a fiddle playing! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- However, there was no time to think more about the matter, for the fiddles and harp began in real earnest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- At this moment the fiddles finished off with a screech, and the serpent emitted a last note that nearly lifted the roof. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They're beginning upstairs,' said the stranger--'hear the company-- fiddles tuning--now the harp--there they go. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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