Definitions for fiddle

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fiddle fid·dle

Spelling: [fid-l]

IPA: /ˈfɪd l/

Fiddle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in fiddle (ddefil).

Definitions for fiddle

noun

1. a musical instrument of the viol family.
2. violin:
3. Nautical. a small ledge or barrier raised in heavy weather to keep dishes, pots, utensils, etc., from sliding off tables and stoves.
4. British Informal. swindle; fraud.

Idioms

1. fine as a fiddle, South Midland and Southern U.S. fiddle (def 15).
2. fit as a fiddle, in perfect health; very fit: Also, as fit as a fiddle.
3. play second fiddle. second fiddle.

verb (used with object)

1. to play (a tune) on a fiddle.
2. to trifle or waste (usually used with away):
3. Bookbinding. to bind together (sections or leaves of a book) by threading a cord through holes cut lengthwise into the back.
4. British Informal. to falsify: to cheat:

verb (used without object)

1. to play on the fiddle.
2. to make trifling or fussing movements with the hands (often followed by with):
3. to touch or manipulate something, as to operate or adjust it; tinker (often followed by with):
4. to waste time; trifle; dally (often followed by around):
5. British Informal. to cheat.

Origin of fiddle

before 1000; Middle English; Old English fithele (cognate with German Fiedel, Dutch vedel, Old High German fidula) probably Vulgar Latin *vītula (cf. viol, Examples for fiddle

I know how to play 'Little lambkins, come down,' if I only had a fiddle.

"He looked at it and he started to fiddle with the cable," Mrs. Perez told The Telegraph.

For he had been painfully conscious now and then that he played but second fiddle.

So the lad seated himself, and placed his fiddle in position.

Why, inside two weeks he'll be fit as a fiddle, and inside a month he'll be his own self!

When bourbon went corporate, tradition and quality had begun to play second fiddle to the primacy of profit.

Willie Polk played the fiddle and another boy, call him Shoefus, played the guitar, like I did.

There the lingua franca is Cajun French, and folks love to fiddle, dance and most of all, eat.

On Wall Street, Bank of America plays a perpetual second fiddle to JPMorgan Chase Co., the only U.S. bank that holds more assets.

And the teacher opened the door, and took his fiddle from its place on the wall.