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fiddle away

fiddle away verb: to play the fiddle idly.

Verb

fiddle away (third-person singular simple present fiddles away, present participle fiddling away, simple past and past participle fiddled away)

  1. (intransitive) To play the fiddle idly.
  2. (transitive) To waste (time)
    • There's nothing I like more than fiddling away Saturday night playing dominoes with myself.

Forms of fiddle away

third-person singular presentfiddles away
present participlefiddling away
past participlefiddled away
pastfiddled away

Questions about fiddle away

What does fiddle away mean?
Fiddle away means to play the fiddle idly.
What part of speech is fiddle away?
Fiddle away is a verb.
What is the past tense of fiddle away?
The past tense of fiddle away is fiddled away.

Words near fiddle away in the dictionary

  1. fidding
  2. fiddlah
  3. fiddle
  4. fiddle about
  5. fiddle around
  6. fiddle away
  7. fiddle beetle
  8. fiddle beetles
  9. fiddle block
  10. fiddle blocks
  11. fiddle face

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