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fiddlesome

fiddlesome adjective: characterised or marked by fiddling (fidgeting or manipulating).

Adjective

fiddlesome (comparative more fiddlesome, superlative most fiddlesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by fiddling (fidgeting or manipulating).

Forms of fiddlesome

comparativemore fiddlesome
superlativemost fiddlesome

Origin of fiddlesome

From fiddle + -some.

Questions about fiddlesome

What does fiddlesome mean?
Fiddlesome means characterised or marked by fiddling (fidgeting or manipulating).
What part of speech is fiddlesome?
Fiddlesome is an adjective.

Words near fiddlesome in the dictionary

  1. fiddles about
  2. fiddles around
  3. fiddles away
  4. fiddles while Rome burns
  5. fiddles with
  6. fiddlesome
  7. fiddlestick
  8. fiddlesticks
  9. fiddlestring
  10. fiddlestrings
  11. fiddleth

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