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Fiddle   /fˈɪdəl/   Listen
Fiddle

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: violin.
verb
(past & past part. fiddled; pres. part. fiddling)
1.
Avoid (one's assigned duties).  Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from.
2.
Commit fraud and steal from one's employer.
3.
Play the violin or fiddle.
4.
Play on a violin.
5.
Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.  Synonyms: diddle, play, toy.  "Don't fiddle with the screws" , "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
6.
Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly.  Synonyms: monkey, tamper.  "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
7.
Try to fix or mend.  Synonym: tinker.  "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"



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"Fiddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... her fiddle-case with her; and to offer to carry it for her seemed an easy way out of my difficulty; but she would not surrender it for a while. I asked her if she had been playing at a concert, or if she were coming from a lesson. No; well, then, why had she ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
... quilting-frames or the spinning-wheels. After the work was done, it was usual to have a festival. The young men wrestled and showed their prowess at trials of strength; the rest looked on and applauded. In the evening there was a dance, at which the local musician scraped out tuneless tunes on an ancient fiddle; and there was of course hearty eating and, it is to be feared, ...
— The United Empire Loyalists - A Chronicle of the Great Migration - Volume 13 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada • W. Stewart Wallace
... cried Smallbones. "My sister in Iowa has got a fiddle; an' I know she plays five toons on it—I've heerd her. She's got a mouth organ, too, an' a musical-box—electric! One 'ud think nobody had got nuthin' but Will Henderson." He strode back to the bar in dudgeon, filled to the brim ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
... that the housing of so many people for any length of time in the over-crowded mines was opt of the question. But that was a consideration to which the "Military Situation" could not resonably be expected to play second fiddle. ...
— The Siege of Kimberley • T. Phelan
... 'Oh, fiddle-de-dee!—every woman, unless she is a fool, knows intuitively what flirtation means, and can put it in practice. But it struck me last night that Aunt Margaret rather encouraged George to pay attention to Gladys. Of course it ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan


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