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Definition of Fiddling
1. Adjective. (informal) small and of little importance. "Giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Unimportant
Derivative terms: Littleness, Pettiness, Trivia, Triviality, Trivialize
Definition of Fiddling
1. Verb. (present participle of fiddle) ¹
2. Noun. action of the verb ''to fiddle'' ¹
3. Adjective. Of petty or trivial importance; footling ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fiddling
1. fiddle [v] - See also: fiddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiddling
Literary usage of Fiddling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"... gently fiddling with their long hind legs among the grass blades, their wing
covers serving as strings and their thighs as fiddle bows. ..."
2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... the miller, whose mill the wind hath lately broke down, and now he hath nothing
to live by but fiddling, and he must needs have it against Whitsuntide ..."
3. The Red River Settlement: Its Rise, Progress, and Present State: With Some by Alexander Ross (1856)
"... old friend—The establishment in confusion—The barn—The stable with many
doors—The corn-yard and the pigs—fiddling the time away— Anecdote—The father and ..."
4. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"... between the gentlemen of Manchester and Eccles ; the wake to conclude with a
fiddling match by all the fiddlers that attend for a piece of silver. ..."
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