About The Word Fiddle

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Fiddle

Fiddle Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Fiddle?
[n] bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
[v] manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" [v] play the violin or fiddle Synonyms | Synonyms for Fiddle: diddle | play | toy | violin Related Terms | Find terms related to Fiddle: A string | alter | Amati | bass | bass viol | bow | bridge | bull fiddle | cello | cheat | contrabass | cook | coquet | Cremona | crowd | D string | dabble | dally | doodle | double bass | E string | falsify | feel | fiddle with | fiddlebow | fiddle-faddle | fiddlestick | fidget | fidget with | finagle | finger with | fingerboard | fix | flimflam | flirt | fool | fool around | fool with | fraud | fribble | frivol | G string | handle | horse around | idle | interfere with | jerk off | kid around | kit | kit fiddle | kit violin | loiter | meddle with | mess | mess around | monkey | monkey around | monkey business | piddle | play | play around | play violin | play with | potter | puddle | putter | racket | saw | scrape | scroll | skin game | smatter | soundboard | Strad | Stradivari | Stradivarius | string | swindle | tamper with | tenor violin | thimblerig | tinker | touch | toy | toy with | trifle | tuning peg | twiddle | viol | viola | violin | violinette | violoncello | violoncello piccolo | violone | violotta See Also | Amati | bowed stringed instrument | chin rest | entertain | fiddlestick | flirt with | Guarnerius | manipulate | play | Strad | Stradavarius | string | think about | think of | toy with | violin bow Fiddle In Webster's Dictionary \Fid"dle\, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin to
D. vedel, OHG. fidula, G. fiedel, Icel. fi?la, and perh. to
E. viol. Cf. {Viol}.]
1. (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a
violin; a kit.
2. (Bot.) A kind of dock ({Rumex pulcher}) with fiddle-shaped
leaves; -- called also {fiddle dock}.
3. (Naut.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to
keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad
weather. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
{Fiddle beetle} (Zo["o]l.), a Japanese carabid beetle
({Damaster blaptoides}); -- so called from the form of the
body.
{Fiddle block} (Naut.), a long tackle block having two
sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead
of side by side as in a common double block. --Knight.
{Fiddle bow}, fiddlestick.
{Fiddle fish} (Zo["o]l.), the angel fish.
{Fiddle head}, an ornament on a ship's bow, curved like the
volute or scroll at the head of a violin.
{Fiddle pattern}, a form of the handles of spoons, forks,
etc., somewhat like a violin.
{Scotch fiddle}, the itch. (Low)
{To play} {first, or second}, {fiddle}, to take a leading or
a subordinate part. [Colloq.]
\Fid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fiddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fiddling}.] 1. To play on a fiddle. Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. --Bacon. 2. 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. --Pepys. \Fid"dle\, v. t. To play (a tune) on a fiddle. |
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