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fiddle

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[ UK /fˈɪdə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪdəɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. play the violin or fiddle
  5. avoid (one's assigned duties)
    The derelict soldier shirked his duties
  6. play on a violin
    Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely
  7. commit fraud and steal from one's employer
    We found out that she had been fiddling for years
NOUN
  1. 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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