Fiddling

Quick meaning: Fiddling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of fiddle.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of fiddle.

More Meanings

1. The playing of music on a fiddle.
2. The act of fidgeting.
3. Tweaking; manipulation.
4. Of petty or trivial importance; footling

Example Sentences

He was fiddling while Rome burned.

It was a fiddling little fault, but ultimately proved disastrous.

[W]e, her doctors […] seemed powerless to prevent [side-effects], despite all our reassurances, and all our fiddlings and manipulations with the dosage[…]

Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?

Word Forms

• fiddlings

Synonyms for fiddling

Depending on context, synonyms include fiddlery, tweakery, trivial, petty, picayune, little.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include niggling, footling, piffling, piddling, petty, trivial.

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