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fiddling about

fiddling about is the present participle and gerund of fiddle about.

Meaning of fiddle about

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of fiddle around.
    Synonyms:
    fiddle around

Questions about fiddling about

What is fiddling about the present participle and gerund of?
Fiddling about is the present participle and gerund of fiddle about.

Words near fiddling about in the dictionary

  1. fiddlier
  2. fiddliest
  3. fiddlin'
  4. fiddliness
  5. fiddling
  6. fiddling about
  7. fiddling around
  8. fiddling away
  9. fiddling while Rome burns
  10. fiddling with
  11. fiddlings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fiddling about (page history and authors); fiddle about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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