英语词汇“a face like a fiddle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

a face like a fiddle

释义

fiddle /fidˈl/

noun

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

transitive verb and intransitive verb

To play on a fiddle

transitive verb

To swindle
To falsify (records, accounts, etc)

intransitive verb

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

ORIGIN: OE fithele; Ger Fiedel; see viol

fiddˈler noun

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

fiddˈling adjective

Trifling
Fiddly

fiddˈly adjective

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

fiddˈle-back noun

The fiddle-shaped front of a chasuble
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

An ornament at a ship's bow, over the prow or cutwater, consisting of a scroll turning aft or inward
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

A violin bow (informal)
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

play first or second fiddle

To act as a first violin or a second violin player in an orchestra
To take a leading, or (esp unwillingly) a subordinate, part in anything

Scotch fiddle (archaic sl)

Scabies (from the motion of the fingers against the palm)

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