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Postman vs Fiddler - What's the difference?

postman | fiddler |

As nouns the difference between postman and fiddler

is that postman is someone (implied male) who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes while fiddler is one who plays the fiddle.

postman

English

Noun

(postmen)
  • (chiefly, British) someone (implied male) who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
  • One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman.
  • * James Whishaw, A Synopsis of the Members of the English Bar
  • Postman of the Court of Exchequer.

    Synonyms

    * mailman

    Hypernyms

    * mail carrier, letter carrier, postal carrier * mailperson, postperson

    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.