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Fiddle vs Friggle - What's the difference?

fiddle | friggle |

As verbs the difference between fiddle and friggle

is that fiddle is to play aimlessly while friggle is (rare) to wriggle.

As a noun fiddle

is (music) any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.

fiddle

English

(wikipedia fiddle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.
    • When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.
  • A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher ) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
  • An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
    • That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
  • A fraud; a scam.
  • (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 )

    • Synonyms

    * (instrument) violin

    Derived terms

    * fiddle brake * fiddle factor * fiddle-faddle * fiddlehead * fiddly * first fiddle * fit as a fiddle * lead fiddle * second fiddle

    See also

    * crowd, crwth

    Verb

    (fiddl)
  • To play aimlessly.
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.
    You're fiddling your life away.
  • To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
    • I needed to fiddle the lighting parameters to get the image to look right.
    Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.
  • (music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Themistocles said he could not fiddle , but he could make a small town a great city.

    Synonyms

    * (to adjust in order to cover a basic flaw) fudge

    Derived terms

    * fiddle about * fiddle around * fiddle the books * fiddle with * fiddler

    See also

    * fritter

    friggle

    English

    Verb

    (friggl)
  • (rare) to wriggle
  • (rare) to fiddle, fumble

    • References

    (he writhed and friggled), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=amAAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA579&dq=%22friggling%22&hl=en&ei=yr8pTIf4OMLflgeNh9W6Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEwQ6AEwCQ
  • v=onepage&q=%22friggling%22&f=false] (friggle with a wrench), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7-3oFAr-fvgC&pg=PA231&dq=%22friggling%22&hl=en&ei=5L8pTNv1HIO8lQfhmb21Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22friggling%22&f=false (friggling like a pelican)