"fiddler" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfɪdələ(ɹ)/, /ˈfɪdlə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fiddler.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-fiddler.wav Forms: fiddlers [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English fithelere, from Old English fiþelere, from *fiþele. By surface analysis, fiddl(e) + -er. * (capstan-house): So called because the fiddle would sometimes be played to cheer the sailors working there. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fithelere}} Middle English fithelere, {{inh|en|ang|fiþelere}} Old English fiþelere, {{surf|+suf|en|fiddle|er|alt1=fiddl(e)|id2=agent noun}} By surface analysis, fiddl(e) + -er, {{sense|capstan-house}} (capstan-house): Head templates: {{en-noun}} fiddler (plural fiddlers)
  1. One who plays the fiddle. Translations (one who plays the fiddle): цигулар (cigular) [masculine] (Bulgarian), houslista [masculine] (Czech), spillemand (Danish), vedelaar [masculine] (Dutch), speelman [masculine] (Dutch), viulisti (Finnish), მევიოლინე (mevioline) (Georgian), Geiger [masculine] (German), hegedűs (Hungarian), fidléir [masculine] (Irish), spellemann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), spillemann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), spelemann [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), كامنچهجی (kemençeci) (Ottoman Turkish), skrzypek [masculine] (Polish), rabequista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), rabequeiro [masculine] (Portuguese), скрипа́ч (skripáč) [masculine] (Russian), fìdhlear [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), fiolspelman [common-gender] (Swedish), spelman [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. One who fiddles; a cheat.
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  3. One who fiddles or tweaks.
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  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.
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  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.
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  6. A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
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  7. (UK, slang, obsolete) A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing. Tags: UK, obsolete, slang
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  8. (nautical, slang) The capstan-house on a steamer. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-fiddler-en-noun-uSWlal0V Categories (other): Nautical Topics: nautical, transport
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fiddlist, fiddleist [dated] Derived forms: bass fiddler, bull fiddler, drunk as a fiddler, fiddler crab, Fiddler on the Roof, Fiddler's Ferry, Hardanger fiddler, kiddy fiddler, pay the fiddler

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations",
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    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
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    "en:Crabs",
    "en:Musicians",
    "en:People",
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    {
      "word": "bass fiddler"
    },
    {
      "word": "bull fiddler"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as a fiddler"
    },
    {
      "word": "fiddler crab"
    },
    {
      "word": "Fiddler on the Roof"
    },
    {
      "word": "Fiddler's Ferry"
    },
    {
      "word": "Hardanger fiddler"
    },
    {
      "word": "kiddy fiddler"
    },
    {
      "word": "pay the fiddler"
    }
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        "plural"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "One who plays the fiddle."
      ],
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        [
          "fiddle",
          "fiddle"
        ]
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "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)",
          "text": "We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who fiddles; a cheat."
      ],
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        [
          "fiddle",
          "fiddle"
        ],
        [
          "cheat",
          "cheat"
        ]
      ]
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      ],
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        {
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          "ref": "2012, Fiorenza Belussi, Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity, page 92:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who fiddles or tweaks."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "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."
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          "genus"
        ],
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "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."
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          "European"
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          "sandpiper"
        ],
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          "Actitis hypoleucos#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose."
      ],
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          "cicada"
        ],
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          "cherry nose"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing."
      ],
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        [
          "sixpence",
          "sixpence"
        ],
        [
          "farthing",
          "farthing"
        ]
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        "(UK, slang, obsolete) A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
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        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Nautical"
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              89
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          "ref": "1877, Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company, page 95:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "The capstan-house on a steamer."
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          "nautical"
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          "capstan",
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        ],
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          "house",
          "house"
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          "steamer",
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        "(nautical, slang) The capstan-house on a steamer."
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪdələ(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪdlə(ɹ)/"
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    {
      "word": "fiddlist"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "fiddleist"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "cigular",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "цигулар"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "houslista"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "word": "spillemand"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vedelaar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "speelman"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "word": "viulisti"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "lang_code": "ka",
      "roman": "mevioline",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "word": "მევიოლინე"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Geiger"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "word": "hegedűs"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fidléir"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spellemann"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spillemann"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "lang_code": "nn",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spelemann"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "lang_code": "ota",
      "roman": "kemençeci",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "word": "كامنچهجی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skrzypek"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rabequista"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rabequeiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "skripáč",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "скрипа́ч"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "lang_code": "gd",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fìdhlear"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fiolspelman"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "one who plays the fiddle",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "spelman"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fiddler"
}

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