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Webster 1828 Edition

Fiddling

FID'DLING

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ppr.
Playing on a fiddle.

FID'DLING

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Noun.
The act of playing on a fiddle.

Definition 2024

fiddling

fiddling

English

Verb

fiddling

  1. present participle of fiddle
    He was fiddling while Rome burned.

Noun

fiddling ‎(plural fiddlings)

  1. action of the verb to fiddle
    • Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
      [W]e, her doctors […] seemed powerless to prevent [side-effects], despite all our reassurances, and all our fiddlings and manipulations with the dosage […]

Adjective

fiddling

  1. Of petty or trivial importance; footling
    It was a fiddling little fault, but was disastrous.

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