Crossword clues for fiddler
fiddler
- Hoedown musician
- A musician who plays the violin
- Someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner
- An unskilled person who tries to fix or mend (usually in a clumsy way)
- A crab on the roof?
- Violinist, one engaged in questionable practice
- Musician, a cheat
- Crab last to scoff head from small fish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid[ae].
Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper ( Tringa maculata), called also brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ( T. alpina); the purple sandpiper ( T. maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ( T. canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper ( Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ( Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper ( Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper ( Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers.
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(Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Old English fiðelere "fiddler" (fem. fiðelestre), agent noun from fiddle (v.). Similar formation in Dutch vedelaar, German Fiedler, Danish fidler. Fiddler's Green "sailor's paradise" first recorded 1825, nautical slang. Fiddler crab is from 1714.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who plays the fiddle. 2 One who fiddles. 3 A burrowing 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. 4 The common European sandpiper (''Tringoides hypoleucus''); so called because it continually oscillates its body.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A fiddler is a person who plays a fiddle or violin.
Fiddler may also refer to:
The Fiddler is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain and an enemy of the Flash.
Fiddler is the fictional protagonist in an eight book mystery series by A.E. Maxwell (husband and wife writing team Evan and Ann Maxwell, who also writes as Elizabeth Lowell.) The books in the series are Just Another Day in Paradise (1985), The Frog and the Scorpion (1986), Gatsby's Vineyard (1987), Just Enough Light to Kill (1988), The Art of Survival (1989), Money Burns (1991), The King of Nothing (1992), and Murder Hurts (1993). Fiddler is an independently wealthy Southern California resident with a past who occasionally solves crimes with the assistance of his ex-wife and on-again, off-again lover Fiora Flynn, a successful investment banker. Themes included action and adventure with villains ranging from KGB officers and Colombian drug smugglers to high society artists and corporate executives.
Fiddler is an HTTP debugging proxy server application written by Eric Lawrence, formerly a Program Manager on the Internet Explorer development team at Microsoft.
Usage examples of "fiddler".
Pate Birnie was a celebrated fiddler or violinist who resided in Kinghorn, Fifeshire.
The young men had brought a fiddler from the village, and it was not long before most of the company were treading the measures of reels or cotillons on the grass.
Bonneval happened to mention the dance called forlana, and Ismail expressing a great wish to know it, I told him that I could give him that pleasure if I had a Venetian woman to dance with and a fiddler who knew the time.
Orange processions and walkings, there were Papist processions and mobs, which made me afraid to stir out, lest knowing me for an Orange fiddler, they should break my head, as the boys broke my leg at Donnybrook fair.
Below, in the yard, Aldo Campione, Fiddler Quain, Harold Allen, and Rowdy Dick Doolan were erecting a wooden structure that Francis was already able to recognize as bleachers.
For Scottie, they window-shop for Herend porcelain, they compare notes on gulyas, they sip strong Turkish coffee amid velvet cushions while a Translyvanian fiddler plays.
Pol, and I had the honour of being present at the wedding--as a fiddler.
I cannot deny these premises, but I will answer that I was only twenty years of age, I was intelligent, talented, and had just been a poor fiddler.
The girls and youths from the country danced jigs and reels around the fiddlers.
During the last ten days, she had become familiar with the unending ruggedness of the landscape, but with that familiarity had come a subconscious The Master Fiddler contempt for its silent warning.
In one corner was a fiddler, and on the veille, flourished for the occasion with satinettes and fern, sat two centeniers and the prevot, singing an old song in the patois of three parishes.
One of the musicians, a red-dad fiddler with instrument case strapped to his back like Kevin, handed the bardling a switch broken from a bush.
As he heaved it upward into the wagon, the odor of fire still in his nostrils, he confronted Fiddler Quain, sitting on an upended metal chamber pot that had been shot full of holes by some backyard marksman.
The drag Fiddler can toss off a quartern of Max without making a wry mug.
Fiddler sat up, the sack of munitions still strapped to his shoulders.