fiddle /fidˈl/

1. A violin, esp when used to play folk music
2. Extended (informal) to any violin
3. Extended to similar instruments such as bass fiddle
4. A violin player
5. A raised rim round a table to keep dishes from sliding off it (nautical)
6. A swindle, esp petty (informal)
7. A manually delicate or tricky operation

To play on a fiddle

1. To swindle
2. To falsify (records, accounts, etc)

1. To trifle or idle (with about or around)
2. To handle things aimlessly (with with)

fiddˈler noun

1. A violinist (informal)
2. A trifler
3. A swindler
4. (also fiddler crab) a small crab of the genus Uca or Gelasimus, from the movements of its enlarged claw

fiddˈling adjective

1. Trifling
2. Fiddly

fiddˈly adjective

1. Time-consuming
2. Difficult to handle or do because requiring delicate movements of the fingers

fiddˈle-back noun

1. The fiddle-shaped front of a chasuble
2. A chair with a fiddle-shaped back

fiddˈleback noun

A wavy grain found in some woods commonly used for the manufacture of violins, and also in woods used for other purposes (also adjective)

fiddle block noun (nautical)

A block having two sheaves of different diameters one above the other

fiddˈle-bow noun

A bow strung with horsehair, with which the strings of the fiddle are played

fiddˈle-de-dee interjection (archaic)

Nonsense

fiddˈle-faddle intransitive verb

To trifle or idle

noun

Trifling talk or behaviour

adjective

Fussy, trifling

interjection

Nonsense

fiddˈle-faddler noun

fiddˈle-faddling adjective

fiddˈlehead noun

1. An ornament at a ship's bow, over the prow or cutwater, consisting of a scroll turning aft or inward
2. The edible coiled frond of certain ferns (N American)

fiddle pattern noun

A design of cutlery involving a violin-shaped handle

fiddˈle-pattern adjective

fiddler's green noun

The sailors' heaven, full of wine, women and song

fiddler's money noun (archaic)

Small coins, such as sixpences

fiddˈlestick noun

1. A violin bow (informal)
2. A mere nothing, a trifle (derisive)

fiddˈlesticks or fiddˈlestick interjection

Nonsense

fiddˈle-string noun

A string for a fiddle

fiddˈlewood noun

(the valuable hard wood of) a tropical American tree (genus Citharexylum; family Verbenaceae)

a face like a fiddle

A long or dismal face

as fit as a fiddle (informal)

In the best of condition

fiddle while Rome burns

To occupy oneself with trifles during a crisis

on the fiddle

Involved in swindling

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