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fiddle
noun
1
a a violin, especially when used to play folk music or jazz;
b colloq, often derisive any violin.
2 colloq a dishonest arrangement; a fraud.
3 naut a raised rim round a table to keep dishes from sliding off it.
4 a manually delicate or tricky operation.
verb (fiddled , fiddling )
1 intr (often fiddle with something) to play about aimlessly with it; to tinker, toy or meddle with it He was fiddling all the time She was always fiddling with her hair .
2 intr (fiddle around or about) to waste time kept fiddling about and got nothing done .
3 tr & intr to falsify (accounts, etc); to manage or manipulate dishonestly caught fiddling the books .
4 tr & intr to play a violin or fiddle; to play (a tune) on one.
[Anglo-Saxon fithele ; compare viol]
as fit as a fiddle in excellent health.
fiddle while Rome burns to be preoccupied with trifles in a crisis.
on the fiddle colloq making money through dishonesty, especially swindling.
play second fiddle to someone to be subordinate to them.
noun
1
a a violin, especially when used to play folk music or jazz;
b colloq, often derisive any violin.
2 colloq a dishonest arrangement; a fraud.
3 naut a raised rim round a table to keep dishes from sliding off it.
4 a manually delicate or tricky operation.
verb (fiddled , fiddling )
1 intr (often fiddle with something) to play about aimlessly with it; to tinker, toy or meddle with it He was fiddling all the time She was always fiddling with her hair .
2 intr (fiddle around or about) to waste time kept fiddling about and got nothing done .
3 tr & intr to falsify (accounts, etc); to manage or manipulate dishonestly caught fiddling the books .
4 tr & intr to play a violin or fiddle; to play (a tune) on one.
[Anglo-Saxon fithele ; compare viol]
as fit as a fiddle in excellent health.
fiddle while Rome burns to be preoccupied with trifles in a crisis.
on the fiddle colloq making money through dishonesty, especially swindling.
play second fiddle to someone to be subordinate to them.
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