Definition of Fiddle

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Fiddle

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.

A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.

To play on a fiddle.

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.

To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

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Fiddle Quotations

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
Nora Roberts

First fight. Then fiddle.
Gwendolyn Brooks

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.
Tony Visconti

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.
Sherwood Boehlert

My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.
Klaus Schulze

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.
Guy Clark

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
Guy Clark

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.
Guy Clark

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
Guy Clark

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
David Blunkett

Fiddle Translations

fiddle in German is Fiedel, Geige
fiddle in Norwegian is fele
fiddle in Swedish is fela, leka, fiol

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