fiddling

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fiddling

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of fiddle He was fiddling while Rome burned.

noun fiddlings

countable, uncountable The playing of music on a fiddle.
countable, uncountable The act of fidgeting.
countable, uncountable Tweaking; manipulation. [W]e, her doctors […] seemed powerless to prevent [side-effects], despite all our reassurances, and all our fiddlings and manipulations with the dosage[…]
Similar: fiddlery, tweakery

adjective

Of petty or trivial importance; footling It was a fiddling little fault, but ultimately proved disastrous.

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@misc{fiddling_2026,
  title = {fiddling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fiddling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}