Definition of Fidle
Fid"dle (f&ibreve;d"d'l), n. [OE.
fidele, fithele, AS. fiðele; akin to D.
vedel, OHG. fidula, G. fiedel, Icel.
fiðla, 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 (Zoöl.), 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
(Zoöl.), 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a
horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn
I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn."
To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst,
'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first."
Orm Pludge
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- The 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.
- An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
- fraud
- To play aimlessly.
You're fiddling your life away.
- To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
I needed to fiddle the lighting parameters to get the image to look right.
Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.
- To play traditional tunes on a violin using the aforementioned styles.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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