fiddle

fiddle is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
2. noun. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
3. noun. A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
4. intransitive verb. To play on a fiddle.
5. intransitive verb. To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
6. transitive verb. To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
7. 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

   Synonyms: violin

8. verb. 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"

   Synonyms: tinker

9. 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"

   Synonyms: monkey, tamper

10. verb. manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination

    "She played nervously with her wedding ring"

    "Don't fiddle with the screws"

    Synonyms: diddle, play, toy

11. verb. play on a violin

    "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"

12. verb. play the violin or fiddle
13. verb. commit fraud and steal from one's employer

    "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"

14. verb. avoid (one's assigned duties)

    "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"

    Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk

Synonyms

violin, tinker, monkey, tamper, diddle, play, toy, goldbrick, shirk

Common word forms

fiddled, fiddler, fiddles, fiddling

Words from these letters

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