fiddler — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. One who plays the fiddle.

2. One who fiddles; a cheat.

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   We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.

3. One who fiddles or tweaks.

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   The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.

4. A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.

5. The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.

6. A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.

7. A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing.

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   • uso britannico
   • obsoleto
   • gergo

8. The capstan-house on a steamer.

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   • gergo

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   Whereupon you shake hands with him […] and make room for him by your side in the "Fiddler," when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke their last cigar.

Sostantivo

1. a musician who plays the violin

   Sinonimi

   violinist

   Termini più generali

   musicianinstrumentalistplayer

2. someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner

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   twiddler

   Termini più generali

   manipulator

3. an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend

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   tinkerer

   Termini più generali

   unskilled person