fiddling
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
fiddling
- present participle and gerund of fiddle
- He was fiddling while Rome burned.
Noun[edit]
fiddling (plural fiddlings)
- action of the verb to fiddle
- 1973, 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 […]
- 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53:
- Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?
Adjective[edit]
fiddling
- Of petty or trivial importance; footling
- It was a fiddling little fault, but ultimately proved disastrous.