fiddles in English

noun

1

a violin, especially when used to play folk music.

This tradition is still at the heart of their music, with the female voices front-lining the instrumental textures of fiddle , guitars, accordion, bass and percussion.

synonyms: violin, viola

2

an act of defrauding, cheating, or falsifying.

a major mortgage fiddle

3

a contrivance, such as a raised rim, that prevents things from rolling or sliding off a table in bad weather.

A fiddle is the guardrail that keeps objects like eyeglasses or ashtrays from falling off the ledge.

verb

1

play the fiddle.

he fiddled with the band from 1949 to 1951

2

touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way.

Laura fiddled with her cup

synonyms: fidget, play, toy, twiddle, fuss, fool about/around, finger, thumb, handle, mess around/about

3

falsify (figures, data, or records), typically in order to gain money.

everyone is fiddling their expenses

synonyms: falsify, manipulate, massage, rig, distort, misrepresent, doctor, alter, tamper with, interfere with, fix, flimflam, cook (the books)

noun

violin, viola
violin

verb

fidget, adjust, falsify, play, tamper, tinker, goldbrick
fidget, play, toy, twiddle, fuss, fool about/around, finger, thumb, handle, mess around/about
adjust, tinker, play around, meddle, interfere
falsify, manipulate, massage, rig, distort, misrepresent, doctor, alter, tamper with, interfere with, fix, flimflam, cook (the books)
play, diddle, toy
tamper, monkey
tinker
goldbrick, shirk, shrink from

Use "fiddles" in a sentence

1. Limbs and trunks rubbed together and intermingled, humming deep tunes like giant bass fiddles.

2. He takes a small glass pipe and a lighter out of his pocket, fiddles with a Baggie

3. Rory could hear the stamping, slapping feet move in time to the fiddles and accordions as they played a jig.

4. Now Bunched lives in Görlitz where he – surrounded by analog poltergeists and lively synthesizers – fiddles on his own and unique sound

5. For fans of "traditional music"--those who love their mandolins, lap steels, banjos, harmonicas, Bousoukis, mandolas, fiddles, bajo sextos, accordions, bodhrans and more- …