fiddle

Plural: fiddles

Noun

• bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
• A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
• Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
• A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
• Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape
• A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
• Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape
• A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
• Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape
• A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
• A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
• Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
• A scam; a fraud or swindle.
• Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
• A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
• Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
• An act of tinkering, playing around, or fidgeting with something.
• Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
• An arrest warrant.
• A watchman's rattle.
• A trifling amount.

Verb

Verb Forms: fiddled, fiddling, fiddles

• To play a violin; to tamper or tinker with something.
• avoid (one's assigned duties)
• commit fraud and steal from one's employer
• play the violin or fiddle
• play on a violin
  • "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"
• manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
  • "Don't fiddle with the screws"
• play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
  • "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
• try to fix or mend
  • "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"
• To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
• To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
• To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
• Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
• To do odd jobs for money.

Intj

• Synonym of fiddlesticks or euphemism for fuck.

Examples

• Done at a fiddle.
• Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.
• He is first fiddle in the band.
• He would FIDDLE with his tiles for minutes, trying to coax out a bingo.
• I don't exactly know how to fix this lawnmower; I'm really just fiddling.
• Oh, fiddle. I left my whip in the stable.
• Sit up straight and stop fiddling!
• That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
• There was some kind of fiddle going on at that company, and several of the directors were arrested.
• to fiddle while Rome burns
• When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.

Synonyms

diddle, goldbrick, monkey, play, shirk, shrink from, tamper, tinker, toy, violin, fiddlesticks or euphemism for fuck

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