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fiddlery

fiddlery noun: fiddling about; tweaking or manipulation.

Noun

fiddlery (uncountable)

  1. Fiddling about; tweaking or manipulation.
    • the endless weeks of tedious fiddlery and close planning and checking2014, Peter D. Groves, Film in Higher Education and Research, page 299

Origin of fiddlery

fiddle + -ery

Questions about fiddlery

What does fiddlery mean?
Fiddlery means fiddling about; tweaking or manipulation.
What part of speech is fiddlery?
Fiddlery is a noun.

Words near fiddlery in the dictionary

  1. Fiddler's Ferry
  2. Fiddler's Green
  3. fiddler's money
  4. fiddler's neck
  5. fiddlers
  6. fiddlery
  7. fiddles
  8. fiddles about
  9. fiddles around
  10. fiddles away
  11. fiddles while Rome burns

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