fiddling - definition, thesaurus and related words from WordNet-Online

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Adjective fiddling has 1 sense

fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial - (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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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"
Antonyms: important, of import (indirect, via unimportant)

Verb fiddle has 7 senses

fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick - avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
--₁ is one way to avoid
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fiddle - commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"
--₂ is one way to embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate
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fiddle - play the violin or fiddle
--₃ is one way to play

Derived forms: noun fiddle₁, noun fiddler₁
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fiddle - play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"
--₄ is one way to play, spiel
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toy, fiddle, diddle, play - 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"
--₅ is one way to manipulate

Derived form: noun fiddler₂
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tamper, fiddle, monkey - 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"
--₆ is one way to manipulate
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tinker, fiddle - try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"
--₇ is one way to repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on

Derived form: noun fiddler₃
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