fiddling
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
fiddling
- present participle of fiddle
- He was fiddling while Rome burned.
Noun[edit]
fiddling (plural fiddlings)
- action of the verb to fiddle
- Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- [W]e, her doctors […] seemed powerless to prevent [side-effects], despite all our reassurances, and all our fiddlings and manipulations with the dosage […]
- Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
Adjective[edit]
fiddling
- Of petty or trivial importance; footling
- It was a fiddling little fault, but was disastrous.
