From en.wiktionary.org:
[Fiddler]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [ang]. [+suf].
- [capstan-house] So called because the fiddle would sometimes be played to cheer the sailors working there.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One who plays the fiddle .
2. One who fiddle s; a cheat .
3. * 2005 , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, _The drama of my life_ (in _The Independent_ online, see http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-drama-of-my-life-483792.html )
4. *: We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous FIDDLERS of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.
5. One who fiddles or tweaks.
6. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2012 | author=Fiorenza Belussi; Udo Hermann Staber | title=Managing Networks of Creativity | page=92
|passage=The community of radio amateurs—trespassing FIDDLERS on the cutting
edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to
inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.}}
1. A burrow ing crab of the genus _Gelasimus_ , of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
2. The common European sandpiper ( [Actitis hypoleucos] ); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
3. A large species of cicada , [Macrotristria angularis] , of eastern Australia; cherry nose .
4. [en] A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing .
5. [en] The capstan - house on a steamer .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1877 | title=Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company | page=95
|passage=Whereupon you shake hands with him [...] and make room for him by
your side in the " FIDDLER," when the pleasant time of night is come, and the
stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies
under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke
their last cigar.}}
**** Synonyms
- [en] , [en] [both dated]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[one who plays the fiddle]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
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**** References
- [capstan-house] [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]