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Fiddler vs Fiddlier - What's the difference?

fiddler | fiddlier |

As a noun fiddler

is one who plays the fiddle.

As an adjective fiddlier is

(fiddly).

fiddler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who plays the fiddle.
  • One who fiddles.
  • * 2005 , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The drama of my life'' (in ''The Independent online, [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-drama-of-my-life-483792.html])
  • We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.
  • 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.
  • The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus ); so called because it continually oscillates its body.
  • fiddlier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (fiddly)

  • fiddly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Requiring dexterity to operate.
  • The buttons on the tiny mobile phone were too fiddly.
  • Requiring frequent adjustment.
  • The fuses are very fiddly, and keep blowing out.

    Derived terms

    * fiddliness