Fiddler

Origin

fiddle + -er

Full definition of fiddler

Noun

1. One who plays the fiddle.
2. One who fiddles.
• 2005, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The drama of my life (in The Independent online, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-drama-of-my-life-483792.html)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. 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.
4. The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); so called because it continually oscillates its body.

Related terms

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