Definition of fiddles Fiddles
/fɪˈdʌlz/ - [fidulz] -
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What does fiddles mean?
Wiktionary 
- fiddles (Noun)
Plural of fiddle.
Part of speech
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| fiddle - avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" | ||
| shirk, shrink from, goldbrick | ||
| avoid stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her" | ||
| scrimshank British military language: avoid work | ||
| malinger, skulk avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | ||
| slack cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime" | ||
| fiddle - play the violin or fiddle | ||
| play engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously; "They played games on their opponents"; "play the stock market"; "play with her feelings"; "toy with an idea" | ||
| music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest" | ||
| fiddle - play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely" | ||
| spiel, play speak at great length (about something) | ||
| music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest" | ||
| fiddle - commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years" | ||
| defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" | ||
| fiddle - 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" | ||
| toy, diddle, play | ||
| manipulate treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | ||
| flirt with, toy with, think about, entertain, think of have on one's mind, think about actively; "I'm thinking about my friends abroad"; "She always thinks about her children first" | ||
| put out, retire retire; "he was put out at third base on a long throw from left field" | ||
| fiddle - try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend" | ||
| tinker | ||
| bushel, furbish up, mend, doctor, touch on, repair, restore, fix heal or recover; "My broken leg is mending" | ||
| fiddle - play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts" | ||
| tamper, monkey | ||
| manipulate treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | ||
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Wiktionary
- fiddle (Noun)
Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin. - fiddle (Noun)
A kind of dock Rumex pulcher with leaves shaped like the musical instrument. - fiddle (Noun)
An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw. - fiddle (Noun)
A fraud; a scam. - fiddle (Noun)
On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects falling off at sea. - fiddle (Verb)
To play aimlessly. - fiddle (Verb)
To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc. - fiddle (Verb)
To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- fiddle (n.)
A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit. - fiddle (n.)
A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock. - fiddle (n.)
A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather. - fiddle (v. i.)
To play on a fiddle. - fiddle (v. i.)
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. - fiddle (v. t.)
To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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fiddle
A musical instrument of the strings family with four strings tuned in perfect fifths.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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fiddle
fid′l, n. a stringed instrument of music, called also a Violin.—v.t. or v.i. to play on a fiddle: to be busy over trifles, to trifle:—pr.p. fidd′ling; pa.p. fidd′led.—ns. Fidd′le-block, a long block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane; Fidd′le-bow, a bow strung with horse-hair, with which the strings of the fiddle are set vibrating.—interjs. Fidd′le-de-dee, Fidd′lestick (often pl.), nonsense!—v.i. Fidd′le-fadd′le, to trifle, to dally.—n. trifling talk.—adj. fussy, trifling.—interj. nonsense!—n. Fidd′le-fadd′ler.—adj. Fidd′le-fadd′ling.—ns. Fidd′le-head, an ornament at a ship's bow, over the cut-water, consisting of a scroll turning aft or inward; Fidd′ler, one who fiddles: a small crab of genus Gelasimus; Fidd′le-string, a string for a fiddle; Fidd′le-wood, a tropical American tree yielding valuable hard wood.—adj. Fidd′ling, trifling, busy about trifles.—Fiddler's green, a sailor's name for a place of frolic on shore.—Play first, or second, fiddle, to take the part of the first, or second, violin-player in an orchestra: to take a leading, or a subordinate, part in anything; Scotch fiddle, the itch. [A.S. fiðele; Ger. fiedel. See Violin.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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fiddle
A contrivance to prevent things from rolling off the table in bad weather. It takes its name from its resemblance to a fiddle, being made of small cords passed through wooden bridges, and hauled very taut.
Wikipedia 
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The word fiddle means a violin when used in folk music. Many people also use it simply as a fun word for "violin". Someone who plays the fiddle is a "fiddler". The bow is sometimes called a "fiddling stick". Fiddle playing, or fiddling, is a style of folk music.
The word "fiddle" is also used for instruments of several hundred years ago which developed into the violin. These instruments varied a lot from one country to another and one time to another. They were of different shapes and sizes, and even had many different names. Often they were held against the chest instead of being tucked under the chin. In the middle ages a small, narrow violin called a kit was often used by dancing masters. It was small enough to be put in a pocket. In south eastern Europe there was even a fiddle with a belly (the front of the instrument) made of skin. Fiddle strings were usually made of gut.
Many fiddles have bridges which are flatter on top than those of classical violins. The flatter bridges makes it easier to play chords and to bow quickly from one string to another. The strings are tuned in a variety of ways. A player might even change the tuning for playing different pieces of music. Tunings other than the regular G-D-A-E tuning, such as G-D-G-D or A-E-A-E, are common. One, two or three of the strings may have been used for a drone (continuous note) while playing the tune on the top string(s).
Many fiddlers have not received classical training but have learned by listening to other fid
