Fiddle vs Piddle - What's the difference?
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(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.
A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher ) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
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 )
To play aimlessly.
* Samuel Pepys
To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
(music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
* Francis Bacon
(British, euphemistic, slang) To urinate.
To waste time; often used as a euphemism for piss'' and followed by ''away .
As nouns the difference between fiddle and piddle
is that fiddle is 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 while piddle is an act of urination.As verbs the difference between fiddle and piddle
is that fiddle is to play aimlessly while piddle is to urinate.As a proper noun Piddle is
a small river in Dorset county, England.fiddle
English
(wikipedia fiddle)Noun
(en noun)- When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.
- That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
Synonyms
* (instrument) violinDerived terms
* fiddle brake * fiddle factor * fiddle-faddle * fiddlehead * fiddly * first fiddle * fit as a fiddle * lead fiddle * second fiddleSee also
* crowd, crwthVerb
(fiddl)- Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.
- You're fiddling your life away.
- 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.
- 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) fudgeDerived terms
* fiddle about * fiddle around * fiddle the books * fiddle with * fiddlerSee also
* fritterpiddle
English
Verb
- He piddled away three hours at the bus station waiting for Gabe to show up.
