Read full poem →Some say from 'pastrycook' it came,
And some, from 'cat' and 'fiddle.'
Dictionary Entry
Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.
In a Sentence
“When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. fiddlemusic fiddletunes fiddlefiddle secondfiddle bassfiddle old
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Poetry examples for “fiddle”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Ah, it has ebbed with me! Ye gods, and when it was flowing,
Pitiful fool that I was, to stand fiddle-faddling in that way!
Read full poem →Of waters rushing down the mountain passes.
I shall return to hear the fiddle and fife
Of village dances, dear delicious tunes
Read full poem →There in your heart, and that is you.
And if the people find you can fiddle,
Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
Read full poem →Then it's heigho! fellows and hi-diddle-diddle,
For the time is ripe for the corn-stalk fiddle.
Read full poem →Hale be your heart, hale be your fiddle;
Lang may your elbuck jink and diddle,
Read full poem →When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,
Folk dance like a wave of the sea;
Read full poem →Pull down the blinds, bring fiddle and clarionet
That there be no foot silent in the room
Read full poem →performed upon the harp the fish followed him. I really have no
design to fiddle you out of more fish; but, if you should esteem my
verses worthy of such a price, though I shall never be so renowned