'Fiddling' definitions:
Definition of 'fiddling'
From: WordNet
adjective
(informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
Definition of 'Fiddling'
From: GCIDE
- Fiddle \Fid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fiddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fiddling.]
- 1. To play on a fiddle. [1913 Webster]
- Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. [1913 Webster]
- Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. --Pepys. [1913 Webster]