fiddle

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. Synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; (usually proscribed) any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
2. Synonym of clown: an unserious person entertaining a group.
3. (slang) Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
4. (slang) Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
5. Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
6. (obsolete,slang) Synonym of arrest warrant.
7. (obsolete,slang) Synonym of watchman's rattle.
8. (obsolete,slang) A trifling amount.
9. Something resembling a violin in shape
10. Something resembling a violin in shape
11. Something resembling a violin in shape

Verb

1. To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
2. To fidget or play; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness.
3. (informal) To cheat or swindle; to commit fraud.
4. (informal) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”).

Intj

Synonym of fiddlesticks.

sinonimi

violin

🎻

tamper

twiddle

play

monkey

🐒

shrink from

goldbrick

diddle

fumble

shirk

finagle

fiddle with

toy

tinker

ebb away

excuse

falsify

feel

fiddler

fidget

finger

gip

gouge

gyp

hit

hoax

hoodwink

jester

lag

laze

loaf

loiter

manipulate

move

mulct

pedestal

phone

☎️

play back

potter

pull away

pull back

pull out

recede

retire

retract

retreat

retrograde

ring

💍

rook

screw

shark

🦈

short-change

sound

🔉

spiel

squirm

strike

stringed instrument

string instrument

swindle

take in

telephone

☎️

thumb

fiddle about

trick

wangle

whipsaw

wiggle

withdraw

backpedal

mess around

mess with

move back

play tricks

strike up

fiddle around

move about restlessly

flim-flam

dilly dally

bamboo clump

bamboo stump

violinette

bed box

cabinet base

back down

cabinet leg

bamboozle

bilk

blow

busk

call

call in

call up

chisel

cozen

cringe

dabble

dally

dawdle

Con il trattino come

fid‧dle

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈfɪd(ə)l/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: fithele

Ereditato da inglese antico: *fiþele

Affine tedesco antico alto: fidula

Affine tedesco: Fiedel

Affine olandese medio: vedele

Affine olandese: vedel

Affine norse antico: fiðla

Affine islandese: fiðla

Affine danese: fiddel

Affine norvegese: fela

Affine svedese: fela

In summary

From Middle English fithele, from Old English *fiþele, from Proto-West Germanic *fiþulā, from Proto-Germanic *fiþulǭ (“fiddle”), of uncertain etymology. Some contest that the Germanic terms are borrowed variations of Late Latin vitula (see viola); others contest that the word has a separate origin within Germanic languages, and still others believe that the Late Latin term for the stringed instrument is a borrowing from Germanic as a change of Latin t to Germanic þ is highly improbable, yet Germanic þ to Latin t is well documented (see troop, Teobaldo, etc.). Cognate with Old High German fidula (German Fiedel), Middle Dutch vedele (Dutch vedel, veel), Old Norse fiðla (Icelandic fiðla, Danish fiddel, Norwegian fela, Swedish fela). The change from /ðl/ to /dl/ in modern English is regular; compare staddle, swaddle (in brothel, it was prevented; see that entry for discussion).