Word "FIDDLE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
Synonyms:
diddle, play, toy
Examples:
Don't fiddle with the screws

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
Synonyms:
violin

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
Synonyms:
monkey, tamper
Examples:
The reporter fiddle with the facts

Crossword Clues for FIDDLE

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Clue Source Date
Cook trifle
Violin played as a folk instrument Mirror Quiz 01 Apr 2024
Aly Bain's instrument (6)
Fraud involving violin
What the bowman uses is a swindle! (6)
Illegal instrument? (6)
As fit as a - - -, simile
Wangle dead ends into new life!
Stringed instrument The Times Concise 06 Feb 2024
Swindle played by a musician (6)
To trifle
Aimlessly toy with instrument The Guardian Cryptic 29 Jan 2024
Aimlessly toy with instrument (6)
Instrument; fraud The Telegraph Quick 25 Jan 2024
Instrument; fraud (6)
Fit as a ___
Violin Puzzler Backwords 03 Dec 2023
See 7-Across Universal 18 Oct 2023
Bluegrass instrument Wall Street Journal 25 Sep 2023
Distractedly play (with); falsify (accounts) The Times Concise 29 Jul 2023
Alter dishonestly The Guardian Quick 22 Jun 2023
Row about theologian being a fraud The Times Cryptic 01 Jul 2022
Square dance instrument Thomas Joseph 24 May 2022
Cheat; instrument The Times Concise 20 May 2022
Racket — that has strings attached The Times Cryptic 12 May 2022
Falsify (figures); violin The Times Concise 30 Dec 2021
Female taking the part of male in mean con The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Oct 2021
Racket that has strings The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Sep 2021
Bluegrass instrument Wall Street Journal 16 Aug 2021
Fraudulent instrument? Irish Times Simplex 13 Aug 2021
Instrument with a neck that's crooked
Doctor and theologian mentioned in case notes Irish Times Crosaire 18 Aug 2020
World chess body admits limits of diagonal play The Telegraph Toughie 10 Jul 2020
Violin The Telegraph Quick 05 May 2020
Do two days on board train
Doctor and theologian mentioned in column Irish Times Crosaire 31 Aug 2019
Falsify; violin The Times Concise 26 Aug 2019
Scam exposed by theologian dipping into dossier
Theologian in the papers for fraud
Tinker (with) New York Times 23 Dec 2018
Toy instrument The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Nov 2018
Country instrument Universal 04 Oct 2018
Violin's alias that's a staple in country music
Female with central part, but not lead, in play
16 down‘s daughters must be kept in line
Heart shown with initial change of sex — tricky operation
Tinker (with)
Country instrument
Dishonest action that has strings attached?
Cheat's set of papers opened by doctor
Duke and duchess kept in line by cook
Fraudulent instrument? Irish Times Simplex 06 Jul 2017
Doctor breaks tool in tricky operation
Toy instrument
One's played the fraud
Tinker with instrument The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Aug 2016
It takes a bow USA Today 24 Dec 2015
A fit comparison
Cook's dossier gone into by theologian The Times Cryptic 11 Nov 2015
Falsify dossier to frame religious scholar
Awkward task for doctor
Religious academic stands in line to bow and scrape
Tamper with instrument The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Jul 2015
Tinker's dossier covering two days The Telegraph Cryptic 13 May 2015
Dossier about theologian being cheat
It takes a bow
Exemplar of fitness
Toy violin scam
Theologian in box in play
Instrument
Epitome of fitness
Member of the violin family
Square dance violin
Tinker (with)
Square-dance instrument
Paragon of fitness
Epitome of fitness
Housetop instrument?
Nero's instrument
Musical instrument.
Waste (time): Colloq.
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