2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fiddle \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fiddling
adj : (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"; "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},
{niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune},
{trivial}]
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