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fiddler

[ UK /fˈɪdlɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪdəɫɝ, ˈfɪdɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a musician who plays the violin
  2. someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner
  3. an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend

How To Use fiddler In A Sentence

  • If you dance you must pay the fiddler
  • “The Fiddler of Bayou Teche” by Delia Sherman is Southern fantasy with a tenebrous twist. Books in 2009, #12
  • Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes. In Praise of Folly
  • Near the edge of the sea you'll find fiddler crab, ragworm and shore crab, sea mice and tiny blenny fish. Times, Sunday Times
  • When I was there the fiddler was a septuagenarian named John MacDougal, who sat straight up in a plain chair and rasped out jigs, reels, strathspeys and airs with solemnity worthy of a judge.
  • If so, didn't you think that the woman fiddler in Frigg looked way too much like Meg? Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • you need a fiddler and a caller for country dancing
  • They started out with Prickle-Eye Bush from their first recording, six years ago, and were joined on stage by a sword swallower, before treating Cold Blows the Wind to an arrangement that mixed jazzy swing from the brass section with edgy playing from the three fiddlers. Bellowhead/Baghdaddies – review
  • The bow (like the funambulist with the soles of his slippers fresh chalked) kept glancing on and off, till we hoped he would be off altogether and break his neck; and now the least harsh and grating of the cords snaps up in the fiddler's face, and a crude one is to be applied; and now -- but what is the use of pursuing the description? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
  • Scientists found male fiddler crabs often aid their neighbors when intruders threaten to move in.
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