Antonyms for fiddle

Grammar : Verb

Spell : fid-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪd l

Definition of fiddle

Origin : late 14c., fedele, earlier fithele, from Old English fiðele, which is related to Old Norse fiðla, Middle Dutch vedele, Dutch vedel, Old High German fidula, German Fiedel; all of uncertain origin.
Perhaps from Medieval Latin vitula "stringed instrument," which is perhaps related to Latin vitularia "celebrate joyfully," from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory, who probably, like her name, originated among the Sabines [Klein, Barnhart]. Unless the Medieval Latin word is from the Germanic ones.
Fiddle has been relegated to colloquial usage by its more proper cousin, violin, a process encouraged by phraseology such as fiddlesticks, contemptuous nonsense word fiddlededee (1784), and fiddle-faddle. Fit as a fiddle is from 1610s.

verb mess with, tinker

Example sentences :

Why, inside two weeks he'll be fit as a fiddle, and inside a month he'll be his own self!
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

For he had been painfully conscious now and then that he played but second fiddle.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

So the lad seated himself, and placed his fiddle in position.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

"I have only my fiddle in the world, and I cannot give that away," he said sadly, after thinking a while.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

And the teacher opened the door, and took his fiddle from its place on the wall.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

I know how to play 'Little lambkins, come down,' if I only had a fiddle.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

The grandmother was really standing there, holding the fiddle out to him.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

Rico cast one look at the fiddle, and departed with deep sadness in his heart.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

Rico placed himself at a little distance, and began to play on his fiddle.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

"A fiddle's great value," John's neighbour whispered to him.
Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine

Synonyms for fiddle

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