 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fiddle \Fid"dle\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fiddling
adjective: (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: {footling}, {lilliputian}, {little}, {Mickey Mouse}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}]
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |