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Fiddle vs. Piddle — What's the Difference?

Fiddle vs. Piddle — What's the Difference?

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music.

Piddle

To urinate.

Fiddle

A violin, especially one used to play folk or country music.

Piddle

Piss: urine.

Fiddle

(Nautical) A guardrail used on a table during rough weather to prevent things from slipping off.
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Piddle

A piss: an act of urination.

Fiddle

(Informal) Nonsensical, trifling matters
"There are things that are important / beyond all this fiddle" (Marianne Moore).

Piddle

Nonsense or a trivial matter.

Fiddle

Chiefly British An instance of cheating or swindling; a fraud.

Piddle

(intransitive) Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.

Fiddle

To play a fiddle.

Piddle

Syn of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.

Fiddle

To touch or handle something in a nervous way
Fiddled with the collar of his shirt as he spoke.

Piddle

Syn of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.

Fiddle

To make unskilled efforts at repairing or improving
Fiddled with the broken toaster.

Piddle

To urinate.

Fiddle

To meddle or tamper
A reporter who fiddled with the facts.

Piddle

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

Fiddle

Chiefly British To commit a fraud, especially to steal from one's employer.

Piddle

To be squeamishly nice about one's food.

Fiddle

To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

Piddle

To urinate; - child's word.

Fiddle

Chiefly British To alter or falsify for dishonest gain
Fiddled the figures in the report.

Piddle

Liquid excretory product;
There was blood in his urine
The child had to make water

Fiddle

Synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.

Piddle

Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

Fiddle

(figurative) clown: an unserious person entertaining a group.

Piddle

Eliminate urine;
Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

Fiddle

(figurative) Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.

Fiddle

Synonym of scam, a fraud or swindle.

Fiddle

(slang) workaround, a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.

Fiddle

Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.

Fiddle

Synonym of arrest warrant.

Fiddle

Synonym of watchman's rattle.

Fiddle

A trifling amount.
Done at a fiddle.

Fiddle

Something resembling a violin in shape, particularly:

Fiddle

(biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.

Fiddle

A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.

Fiddle

A rack for drying pottery after glazing.

Fiddle

To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
To fiddle while Rome burns

Fiddle

To fidget or play; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness.
Stop fiddling with your food. Either tell me what's wrong or just eat.

Fiddle

(informal) To cheat or swindle; to commit fraud.
Fred was fiddling the books.

Fiddle

Senseid|en|sort out by tinkering}} (informal) {{synonym of tinker, to make small adjustments or improvements.
I needed to fiddle with these settings to get the image to look right.

Fiddle

(obsolete) fiddlesticks.
Oh, fiddle. I left my whip in the stable.

Fiddle

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

Fiddle

A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; - called also fiddle dock.

Fiddle

A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.

Fiddle

To play on a fiddle.
Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city.

Fiddle

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.
Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.

Fiddle

To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

Fiddle

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

Fiddle

Avoid (one's assigned duties);
The derelict soldier shirked his duties

Fiddle

Commit fraud and steal from one's employer;
We found out that she had been fiddling for years

Fiddle

Play the violin or fiddle

Fiddle

Play on a violin;
Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely

Fiddle

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

Fiddle

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

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

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