Dictionary Entry

fiddler

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈfɪdlə(ɹ)/Used In Literature ↓

One who plays the fiddle.

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Common Phrases

. fiddlercrabs fiddlercrab fiddlerfiddler blindfiddler oldfiddler timefiddler country

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Poetry examples for “fiddler”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And I sat on the witness stand as blind
As Jack the Fiddler, saying over and over,
“I didn’t know him at all.”

Where is Old Fiddler Jones
Who played with life all his ninety years,

A rogue like Hodge[4] am I, the world well know it;
Hodge was his fiddler, and I, John, his poet.
This may prevent the pay for which I write;

[Footnote 1: 'Claude Phillips:' a Welsh travelling fiddler, greatly
admired.]

Him, thus dishonour'd, for a wit you own,
And court him as top fiddler of the town.

[Footnote 1: 'Claude Phillips:' a Welsh travelling fiddler, greatly
admired.]

François Hippolite Barthélémon, first-fiddler at Vauxhall Gardens,
composed what was probably the most popular morning hymn-tune ever

They will all come up to me,
With 'Here is the fiddler of Dooney!'
And dance like a wave of the sea.

To Mrs. Courtenay. Aug. 20, 1793. Story of Bob Archer
and the fiddler; Flaxman's designs to Homer 424