fiddlingn.

/ˈfɪdlɪŋ/

Etymology: < fiddle v. + -ing suffix¹.

The action of fiddle v. in various senses.

1. Playing the fiddle.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [noun] > playing fiddle

fiddlingc1450

fiddlery1588

scraping1612

tweetling1850

c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 390 Bothe harpe and fydyllyng.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 7 Th' Arcadians..Whom nothing in the World could bring To civil Life, but fiddling.

a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. iii. 530 We see Nero's fidling and Commodus's skill in fencing, on several of their Medals.

1879 W. Besant & J. Rice 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay (1891) ii. 22 There could be no fiddling that evening.

2. Fussy trifling; petty adjustment or alteration.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun]

playOE

loveOE

toucha1400

chamber workc1450

venery1497

bed-glee1582

bed-game1596

fiddling1622

twatting1893

sexual relations1897

fun time1905

massage1906

sex play1922

actionc1930

hanky-panky1939

making-out1957

lumber1966

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > frivolity or lack of seriousness

nugationc1450

nugacity1593

fiddling1622

frivolousnessa1631

nugality1676

futility1692

futileness1727

flippancy1746

frivolity1796

nugatoriness1853

frippery1855

fiddle1874

fribble1881

frivolling1882

fribblery1889

trifledom1903

the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > touching wantonly or lecherously > taking liberties with (a woman)

fiddling1622

1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iv. sig. H3^v Hell on your fidling.

1708 W. King Art of Love xii. 145 Some times your Hair you upwards furl..All must through twenty Fidlings pass.

1762 Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 240 'Tis so metamorphos'd by your fiddling and fangling, That I scarce know my own.

1878 in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 249 I am sick of this fiddling about.

3. Cheating, swindling.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun]

defraudc1450

defraudationc1503

fraudingc1530

defrauding1548

cheateryc1555

cheatingc1555

versing1591

begeckc1600

sharking1602

shaving1606

rooking1635

defraudment1645

emunging1664

prowlerya1670

bilking1687

sharping1692

mace1742

fineering1765

swindling1769

highway robbery1777

macing1811

flat-catching1821

ramping1830

swindlery1833

rigging1846

diddlinga1849

suck-in1856

daylight robbery1863

cooking1873

bunco-steering1875

chousing1881

fiddling1884

verneukery1896

padding1900

verneukering1900

bobol1907

swizzle1913

ramp1915

swizz1915

chizzing1948

tweedling1975

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving

swikingc1000

blindfolding?c1225

deceivancec1330

trechettingc1330

jugglingc1380

beguilingc1400

deceivingc1400

fagec1400

delusionc1420

sophisticationc1450

circumvention1534

illudinga1547

cheateryc1555

cheatingc1555

crossing1592

tricking1595

wiling?a1600

circumventing1603

practice1622

cheat1641

deluding1645

underdealing1649

amusement1658

conveyancing1676

bubbling1700

jockeyshipa1763

overreachinga1774

jockeying1779

beguilement1805

gaggery1819

trickstering1821

Jewing1842

wool-pulling1843

rigging1846

hoodwinking1858

old soldierism1866

old soldiering1867

fiddling1884

gold-bricking1901

wangling1911

finagling1926

hyping1968

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > action

bulling1532

cogging1570

cozening1576

coney-catching1591

fool-taking1592

gulling1600

bat-fowling1602

sharking1602

imposturing1618

mountebanking1672

shamming1677

sharping1692

fineering1765

overreachinga1774

pigeoning1808

flat-catching1821

thimble-shifting1834

thimblerigging1839

strawing1851

thimbling1857

fiddling1884

piking1884

ramping1891

1884 J. Greenwood Little Ragamuffins xxxii. 300 So sure as a boy of mine takes to fiddling, I'd manoeuvre him into quod before he sleeps that night.

1959 New Statesman 11 July 39/1 The Ministry people would not agree because they thought it would lead to [taxi] drivers taking strangers all round the place and doing all sorts of fiddling.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

fiddlingadj.

/ˈfɪdlɪŋ/

Etymology: < fiddle v. + -ing suffix².

1. That plays the fiddle.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [adjective] > playing fiddle

fiddlinga1586

scraping1824

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. sig. N8^v I curse the fidling finders out of Musicke.

1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 111 A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 290 He lighted by chance on a fiddling fellow.

a. Of persons: Busy about trifles; addicted to futile and petty activity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > devoted to futility

fiddling1660

futile1749

futilitarian1873

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 176 The fruit of their fidling minds.

1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master ii. ii You grow so fiddling and so trouble~some there is no enduring you.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. i. 5 A sort of fiddling, busy, yet..un-busy man.

b. Of things: Petty, trifling, unimportant; contemptible, futile.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible

unworthlyc1230

wretcha1250

seely1297

vilec1320

not worth a cress (kerse)1377

the value of a rushc1380

threadbarec1412

wretched1450

miserable?a1513

rascal1519

prettya1522

not worth a whistlea1529

pegrall1535

plack1539

pelting1540

scald1542

sleeveless1551

baggage1553

paltering1553

piddling1559

twopenny1560

paltry1565

rubbish1565

baggagely1573

pelfish1577

halfpenny1579

palting1579

baubling1581

three-halfpenny1581

pitiful1582

triobolar1585

squirting1589

not worth a lousea1592

hedge1596

cheap1597

peddling1597

dribbling1600

mean1600

rascally1600

three-farthingc1600

draughty1602

dilute1605

copper1609

peltry?a1610

threepenny1613

pelsy1631

pimping1640

triobolary1644

pigwidgeon1647

dustya1649

fiddling1652

puddlinga1653

insignificant1658

piteous1667

snotty1681

scrubbed1688

dishonourable1699

scrub1711

footy1720

fouty1722

rubbishing1731

chuck-farthing1748

rubbishy1753

shabby1753

scrubby1754

poxya1758

rubbishly1777

waff-like1808

trinkety1817

meanish1831

one-eyed1843

twiddling1844

measly1847

poking1850

picayunish1852

vild1853

picayune1856

snide1859

two-cent1859

rummagy1872

faddling1883

finicking1886

slushy1889

twopence halfpenny1890

jerk1893

pissy1922

crappy1928

two-bit1932

piddly1933

chickenshit1934

pissing1937

penny packet1943

farkakte1960

pony1964

gay1978

1652 E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 301 Putting himself into every fidling business.

a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 70 For feare of making their meetings to be vaine and fidling.

1708 W. King Art of Love v. 62 The most fidling work of Knitting.

1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 39 Good Cooks cannot abide what they..call fidling Work, where Abundance of Time is spent and little done.

1886 J. R. Rees Pleasures of Book-worm v. 169 The quantity of fiddling, complaining criticism with which many of our..critical journals abound.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	fiddling
释义	fiddlingn. /ˈfɪdlɪŋ/ Etymology: < fiddle v. + -ing suffix¹. The action of fiddle v. in various senses. 1. Playing the fiddle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [noun] > playing fiddle fiddlingc1450 fiddlery1588 scraping1612 tweetling1850 c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 390 Bothe harpe and fydyllyng. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 7 Th' Arcadians..Whom nothing in the World could bring To civil Life, but fiddling. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. iii. 530 We see Nero's fidling and Commodus's skill in fencing, on several of their Medals. 1879 W. Besant & J. Rice 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay (1891) ii. 22 There could be no fiddling that evening. 2. Fussy trifling; petty adjustment or alteration. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] playOE loveOE toucha1400 chamber workc1450 venery1497 bed-glee1582 bed-game1596 fiddling1622 twatting1893 sexual relations1897 fun time1905 massage1906 sex play1922 actionc1930 hanky-panky1939 making-out1957 lumber1966 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > frivolity or lack of seriousness nugationc1450 nugacity1593 fiddling1622 frivolousnessa1631 nugality1676 futility1692 futileness1727 flippancy1746 frivolity1796 nugatoriness1853 frippery1855 fiddle1874 fribble1881 frivolling1882 fribblery1889 trifledom1903 the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > touching wantonly or lecherously > taking liberties with (a woman) fiddling1622 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iv. sig. H3^v Hell on your fidling. 1708 W. King Art of Love xii. 145 Some times your Hair you upwards furl..All must through twenty Fidlings pass. 1762 Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 240 'Tis so metamorphos'd by your fiddling and fangling, That I scarce know my own. 1878 in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 249 I am sick of this fiddling about. 3. Cheating, swindling. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] defraudc1450 defraudationc1503 fraudingc1530 defrauding1548 cheateryc1555 cheatingc1555 versing1591 begeckc1600 sharking1602 shaving1606 rooking1635 defraudment1645 emunging1664 prowlerya1670 bilking1687 sharping1692 mace1742 fineering1765 swindling1769 highway robbery1777 macing1811 flat-catching1821 ramping1830 swindlery1833 rigging1846 diddlinga1849 suck-in1856 daylight robbery1863 cooking1873 bunco-steering1875 chousing1881 fiddling1884 verneukery1896 padding1900 verneukering1900 bobol1907 swizzle1913 ramp1915 swizz1915 chizzing1948 tweedling1975 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving swikingc1000 blindfolding?c1225 deceivancec1330 trechettingc1330 jugglingc1380 beguilingc1400 deceivingc1400 fagec1400 delusionc1420 sophisticationc1450 circumvention1534 illudinga1547 cheateryc1555 cheatingc1555 crossing1592 tricking1595 wiling?a1600 circumventing1603 practice1622 cheat1641 deluding1645 underdealing1649 amusement1658 conveyancing1676 bubbling1700 jockeyshipa1763 overreachinga1774 jockeying1779 beguilement1805 gaggery1819 trickstering1821 Jewing1842 wool-pulling1843 rigging1846 hoodwinking1858 old soldierism1866 old soldiering1867 fiddling1884 gold-bricking1901 wangling1911 finagling1926 hyping1968 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > action bulling1532 cogging1570 cozening1576 coney-catching1591 fool-taking1592 gulling1600 bat-fowling1602 sharking1602 imposturing1618 mountebanking1672 shamming1677 sharping1692 fineering1765 overreachinga1774 pigeoning1808 flat-catching1821 thimble-shifting1834 thimblerigging1839 strawing1851 thimbling1857 fiddling1884 piking1884 ramping1891 1884 J. Greenwood Little Ragamuffins xxxii. 300 So sure as a boy of mine takes to fiddling, I'd manoeuvre him into quod before he sleeps that night. 1959 New Statesman 11 July 39/1 The Ministry people would not agree because they thought it would lead to [taxi] drivers taking strangers all round the place and doing all sorts of fiddling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2019). fiddlingadj. /ˈfɪdlɪŋ/ Etymology: < fiddle v. + -ing suffix². 1. That plays the fiddle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [adjective] > playing fiddle fiddlinga1586 scraping1824 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. sig. N8^v I curse the fidling finders out of Musicke. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 111 A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 290 He lighted by chance on a fiddling fellow. 2. a. Of persons: Busy about trifles; addicted to futile and petty activity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > devoted to futility fiddling1660 futile1749 futilitarian1873 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 176 The fruit of their fidling minds. 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master ii. ii You grow so fiddling and so trouble~some there is no enduring you. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. i. 5 A sort of fiddling, busy, yet..un-busy man. b. Of things: Petty, trifling, unimportant; contemptible, futile. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible unworthlyc1230 wretcha1250 seely1297 vilec1320 not worth a cress (kerse)1377 the value of a rushc1380 threadbarec1412 wretched1450 miserable?a1513 rascal1519 prettya1522 not worth a whistlea1529 pegrall1535 plack1539 pelting1540 scald1542 sleeveless1551 baggage1553 paltering1553 piddling1559 twopenny1560 paltry1565 rubbish1565 baggagely1573 pelfish1577 halfpenny1579 palting1579 baubling1581 three-halfpenny1581 pitiful1582 triobolar1585 squirting1589 not worth a lousea1592 hedge1596 cheap1597 peddling1597 dribbling1600 mean1600 rascally1600 three-farthingc1600 draughty1602 dilute1605 copper1609 peltry?a1610 threepenny1613 pelsy1631 pimping1640 triobolary1644 pigwidgeon1647 dustya1649 fiddling1652 puddlinga1653 insignificant1658 piteous1667 snotty1681 scrubbed1688 dishonourable1699 scrub1711 footy1720 fouty1722 rubbishing1731 chuck-farthing1748 rubbishy1753 shabby1753 scrubby1754 poxya1758 rubbishly1777 waff-like1808 trinkety1817 meanish1831 one-eyed1843 twiddling1844 measly1847 poking1850 picayunish1852 vild1853 picayune1856 snide1859 two-cent1859 rummagy1872 faddling1883 finicking1886 slushy1889 twopence halfpenny1890 jerk1893 pissy1922 crappy1928 two-bit1932 piddly1933 chickenshit1934 pissing1937 penny packet1943 farkakte1960 pony1964 gay1978 1652 E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 301 Putting himself into every fidling business. a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 70 For feare of making their meetings to be vaine and fidling. 1708 W. King Art of Love v. 62 The most fidling work of Knitting. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 39 Good Cooks cannot abide what they..call fidling Work, where Abundance of Time is spent and little done. 1886 J. R. Rees Pleasures of Book-worm v. 169 The quantity of fiddling, complaining criticism with which many of our..critical journals abound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1450adj.a1586
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