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verb

Fiddle v. t. To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

Fiddle v. i. (past & past part. fiddled; pres. part. fiddling)

To play on a fiddle. "Themistocles... said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city."

To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. "Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fiddling" Quotes from Famous Books

... off, John?" "Get off! Sure, aw did. It wur noan o' me. It wur a keaw jobber, at did it. . . . Aw'll tell yo what, for two pins aw'd frame that summons, an' hang it eawt o' th' window; but it would look so impudent." Old John's wants were inquired into, and we left him fiddling among his rusty tools. We next went to a place called Hammond's Row—thirteen poor cottages, side by side. Twelve of the thirteen were inhabited by people living, almost entirely, upon relief, either from the parish or from the ...

— Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine • Edwin Waugh

... in a musical country [Italy], where singing, fiddling, and piping are not only the common topics of conversation but almost the principal objects of attention, I cannot help cautioning you against giving in to those—I will call them illiberal—pleasures, though music is commonly reckoned one of ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IX. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... butterflies have the power of making a sharp crackling sound by means of hooks on the wings. The katydid, so annoying to some in its persistent ditty, so full of reminiscences to others of us, is a large, green, fiddling grasshopper. ...

— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... more. I've had a frightful row with Dora. She says I've been fiddling with her things. It's all because she's so untidy. As if her things could interest me. Yesterday she left her letter to Erika lying about on the table, and all I read was: He's as handsome as a Greek god. I don't know who "he" was for she came in at that moment. It's probably Krail Rudi, ...

— A Young Girl's Diary • An Anonymous Young Girl

... that did not look up to the clouds would be anything but a catgut-scraper! Even Elshender's fiddle was the one angel that held back the heavy curtain of his gross nature, and let the sky shine through. He ought to have been set fiddling every Sunday morning, and from his fiddling dragged straight to church. It was the only thing man could have done for his conversion, for then his heart was open, But I fear the prayers would have closed it before the sermon came. He should rather have been compelled to take his fiddle ...

— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

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