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Fiddles
Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.
📖 Definitions of "Fiddles"
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Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.
"When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin."
- 2
A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
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An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
"That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right."
- 4
A fraud; a scam.
- 1
To play aimlessly.
"You're fiddling your life away."
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To adjust or manipulate for deception or fraud.
"Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books."
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To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
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To touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way, or tinker with something in an attempt to make minor adjustments or improvements.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Fiddles"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| violinnoun | (music) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow. |
| diddlenoun | (slang, childish, countable) The penis. |
| playnoun | (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment. |
| toynoun | Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. |
| stories | an American early 1970s rock and pop music band based in New York City. |
| violinsnoun | (music) the violin section of an orchestra |
| fretsnoun | Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. |
| tinklesnoun | (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination. |
| squeezeboxnoun | Alternative form of squeeze box. [(music, informal) An accordion or concertina.] |
| hurdy gurdynoun | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
| citternnoun | A stringed instrument (chordophone), played with a plectrum (a pick), and most commonly possessing four wire strings and chromatic frets, which is a precursor to the modern day guitar. |
| dithersnoun | (slang) The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety. |
| mandolinnoun | (music) A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back. |
| harpnoun | (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body |
| strummingnoun | The action of the verb to strum |
| banjonoun | A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings. |
| lutesnoun | A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. |
| pennywhistlenoun | (music) A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc. |
| clacksnoun | Clackmannanshire (in postal addresses) |
| tambourinenoun | A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.}} |
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