fiddle
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Is fiddle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.Examples: "The fiddle of these early times, however, was the viol and not our modern violin."proscribedusually
2. Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape, particularly:
3. Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape, particularly:
4. Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape, particularly:
5. (figurative) A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.Examples: "You would not have your Son the Fiddle to every jovial Company."figuratively
6. (figurative) Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.Examples: "There was some kind of fiddle going on at that company, and several of the directors were arrested."; "Says Bevin: 'I want peace... and we shan't get it unless we deal with one another as friends. I will be a party to no fiddles.'"; "I know you'll think this is one of my fiddles. At my last parish we raffled a horse and trap,... a clothes horse and a mousetrap."figurativelyinformal
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.Examples: "to fiddle while Rome burns"; "Themistocles […] said he could not fiddle, but yet he could make a small town a great city."intransitive
2. (informal, transitive) To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.Examples: "Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books."informaltransitive
3. (intransitive) 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.Examples: "Sit up straight and stop fiddling!"; "Loke you fydell nat with your handes whan your maister speketh to you."; "[…] talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers […]"intransitive
4. (informal, intransitive) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.Examples: "I don't exactly know how to fix this lawnmower; I'm really just fiddling."Synonyms: tinkerinformalintransitive
5. (intransitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To do odd jobs for money.Examples: "A cake-seller told me that a little while before I saw him a lad of twelve or so had consumed a shilling’s worth of cakes and pastry, as he had got a shilling by “fiddling;” not, be it understood, by the exercise of any musical skill, for “fiddling,” among the initiated, means the holding of horses, or the performing of any odd jobs."UKintransitiveobsoleteslang
Definition source: Wiktionary