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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fiddle About (To). To fiddle about a thing means to "play" business. To fiddle with one's fingers is to move them about as a fiddler moves his fingers up and down the fiddle-strings. "Mere trifling, or unprofitable fiddling about nothing." - Barrow: Sermons, vol.i. sermon 7. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: FIDDLE ABOUT |
| Specialty definitions using "FIDDLE ABOUT": Fiddlesticks!. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm your wicked Uncle Ernie; I'm glad you won't see or hear me, As I fiddle about, fiddle about, fiddle about (Tommy; writing credit: Pete Townshend; Ken Russell) | |
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| Language | Translations for "FIDDLE ABOUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | tüfteln (puzzle), pusseln, kleckern (make a mess, spill, splash), herumspielen (mess about, mess around, muck about, muck around, play around, twiddle), herumfummeln (fumble about, fumble around, meddle, mess about, mess around, muck about, muck around, tinker about, to fumble around), hantieren (be busy, ply, tinker). (various references) | |
Hungarian | piszmog (diddle, dilly dally, Potter, to bugger about, to bugger around, to eff about, to eff around, to fart about, to fart around, to fiddle about, to hack around, to idle over sg, to jack around, to piffle, to potter about, to screw around). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iddlefay aboutay.(various references) | |
Russian | шататься без дела, бездельничать (bum, dawdle, drone, fribble, idle, lallygag, laze, loaf, molder, moulder, sit back, twiddle, while the time away). (various references) | |
Swedish | fjanta omkring (fiddle around, fuss about, fuss around). (various references) | |
Turkish | vaktini boşa harcamak (fiddle, fiddle around), aylaklık etmek (arse around, bum, bum around, dawdle, fiddle, fiddle around, footle, frig, loaf, loaf about, loaf around, not to work). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-f-i-l-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: outfabled. | |
-3 letters: buddleia, deadbolt, deadlift, dutiable, foliated, lifeboat, outfable, outfield. | |
-4 letters: abluted, addible, audible, audited, bailout, bloated, boatful, builded, default, deltoid, dilated, diluted, doubled, doublet, doubted, fadeout, faulted, fibulae, flatbed, floated, flouted, foliate, iodated, lobated, outlaid, tabloid, tabouli, toadied, toluide. | |
-5 letters: abided, aboded, afield, aidful, albedo, albeit, albite, audile, autoed, baddie, bailed, baited, balded. | |
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