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fiddle
  1. (music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.
  2. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
  3. An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
  4. A fraud; a scam.
  5. (nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects falling off at sea. (Also fiddle rail)
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  7. Examples:
    1. “How was he able to work such an elaborate fiddle unless he'd had inside help?”
      “An old man was playing the fiddle, with a boy accompanying him on the bagpipes.”
fiddler
  1. One who plays the fiddle.
  2. One who fiddles.
  3. A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
  4. The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); so called because it continually oscillates its body.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The fiddler entertained the crowd with his lively tunes at the country fair.”
      “Common names in the English language are ladyfish, big-eyed herring, bonefish, fiddler, skipjack, springer, and tenpounder.”
      “Scientists found male fiddler crabs often aid their neighbors when intruders threaten to move in.”
fiddlehead
  1. The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle.
  2. A similar scroll-shaped ornament on a ship's bow.
  3. The furled fronds of a young fern harvested for food consumption.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “We admired the delicate craftsmanship of the fiddlehead, intricately carved into the scroll of the exquisite violin.”
      “In springtime, many adventurous food enthusiasts forage for fiddleheads, relishing the earthy flavor and tender texture of these young fern fronds.”
      “The head of the ship usually was finished off as a scrollhead or a fiddlehead.”
fiddleneck
  1. Any plant in the genus Amsinckia, with flowers in a coiled inflorescence that looks like the end of a fiddle.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The large-flowered fiddleneck may become the first endangered plant in the United States for which recovery plan goals will be met.”
      “The poppy's supporting actors include purple lupine, yellow goldfields, and fiddleneck.”
fiddlestring
  1. One of the strings of a fiddle.
fiddlestick
  1. A bow used to play the fiddle.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Here's my fiddlestick, here's that shall make you dance.”
      “The daughter and the bewildered father leave, but leave the fiddlestick behind.”
      “Didn't she, rather, do you the honor to say, 'A fiddlestick for your phrases!”
fiddleist
  1. (dated) Alternative form of fiddlist
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fiddlesticks
  1. plural of fiddlestick
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Simply to say you're going to make your fortune is all fiddlesticks and folly.”
      “You are a creative artist, and I am an artist, and so we understand the struggle and the pain of it, and the reason for it, and the rest of the world is just fiddlesticks and apple sauce.”
fiddling
fiddlist
fiddlestrings
  1. plural of fiddlestring
fiddleheads
  1. plural of fiddlehead
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There are tiny fiddleheads on the male ferns and ostrich ferns and the buds on the highbush cranberry are about ready to burst forth.”
      “These are fiddleheads, the young shoots of the ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, and the cinnamon fern, Osmunda cinnamonum.”
      “The commonly eaten fiddleheads in eastern North America are those of ostrich fern, a native woodland plant.”
fiddlenecks
  1. plural of fiddleneck
fiddleists
fiddlings
fiddlists
fiddlers
  1. plural of fiddler
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The next night, Blazin' Fiddles brings together five of the hottest contemporary Scottish fiddlers, accompanied by guitar and piano.”
      “Czech players were once legendary for their instinctive musicianship, most notably the fiddlers.”
      “In Titanic, virtually every Englishman was insufferable, while happy Irish fiddlers and dancers created a wonderful atmosphere in steerage.”
fiddles
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