Fiddling vs Fiddler - What's the difference?
fiddling | fiddler |
Of petty or trivial importance; footling
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])
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.
As nouns the difference between fiddling and fiddler
is that fiddling is action of the verb to fiddle while fiddler is one who plays the fiddle.As a verb fiddling
is .As an adjective fiddling
is of petty or trivial importance; footling.fiddling
English
Verb
(head)- He was fiddling while Rome burned.
Adjective
(head)- It was a fiddling little fault, but was disastrous.
fiddler
English
Noun
(en noun)- We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.