fiddle

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[ UK /fˈɪdə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪdəɫ/ ]

VERB

play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
Someone tampered with the documents on my desk
The reporter fiddle with the facts
try to fix or mend
She always fiddles with her van on the weekend
Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right
manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
She played nervously with her wedding ring
Don't fiddle with the screws
He played with the idea of running for the Senate
play the violin or fiddle
avoid (one's assigned duties)
The derelict soldier shirked his duties
play on a violin
Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely
commit fraud and steal from one's employer
We found out that she had been fiddling for years

NOUN

bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow

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How To Use fiddle In A Sentence

Many of the ideas presented are on the cutting edge and deal with anything from abstract concepts to fiddlehead ferns, from a number to numeral, from software to the nuts and bolts of a computer.
She took a deep breath and fiddled with the sapphire necklace hanging down below her collar bone.
He sits back and fiddles with a legwarmer. Times, Sunday Times
The seven young musicians play an exciting assortment of instruments including bodhran, accordion, bouzouki, guitar, bass, fiddle, Asturian bagpipes and flute.
She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.
Gin he had hauden till 's fiddle, he wad hae been playin 'her the nicht, in place o' 's airm lyin 'at 's side like a lang lingel (ligneul -- shoemaker's thread).' Robert Falconer
It gradually draws you in, though the grating incidental fiddle music does its best to spit you back out again. Times, Sunday Times
Crikey readers have contributed a lot of stories on circulation rorts, fiddles and the like over the past week or so, but here's another tale, a bit historical, which would be hysterical if it wasn't serious.
For those adventurous eaters (at least in my book), here is a collection of fiddlehead recipes. How cute are these fiddleheads?? « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
If you dance you must pay the fiddler.

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