Associations to the word «Fiddling»
Noun
Adverb
Wiktionary
FIDDLING, verb. Present participle of fiddle
FIDDLING, noun. Action of the verb to fiddle
FIDDLING, adjective. Of petty or trivial importance; footling
FIDDLING WITH, verb. Present participle of fiddle with
Dictionary definition
FIDDLING, 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".
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.