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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



... Jaybird died wid de Whoopin' Cough, De Bluebird died wid de Measles; 'Long come a Nigger wid a fiddle on his back, 'Vitin' Crows fer ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley
... haven't turned a hair. We are as fit as a fiddle," they exclaimed, and looked anything ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36--New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 • Various
... sate on a garden gate And a snapdog fared beneath; Careless and free was his mien, and he Held a fiddle-string ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce
... sound of banjo and fiddle, as one by one the dusky musicians from the cabins ranged themselves along the wall of the big room, which had been cleared of its furnishings, and young feet came hurrying in when the old Virginia reel sounded through, the low rooms, calling ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 • Various
... Middleton had become calm, he proceeded to enumerate to Mr. Miller the many good qualities of Mr. Wilmot. Said he, "He was a capital feller; allus just so. Lively as a cricket; none of your stuck-up, fiddle-faddle notions. And then he was such a good boarder—not a bit particular what he eat; why, he was the greatest kind of a man—eat corn bread, turnip ...
— Tempest and Sunshine • Mary J. Holmes


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