Fiddle vs. Riddle

Fiddlenoun

(music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.

Fiddlenoun

A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.

Fiddlenoun

An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.

Fiddlenoun

A fraud; a scam.

Fiddlenoun

(nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects falling off at sea. (Also fiddle rail)

Fiddleverb

To play aimlessly.

Fiddleverb

(transitive) To adjust or manipulate for deception or fraud.

Fiddleverb

(music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.

Fiddleverb

To touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way, or tinker with something in an attempt to make minor adjustments or improvements.

Fiddlenoun

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

Fiddlenoun

A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; - called also fiddle dock.

Fiddlenoun

A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.

Fiddleverb

To play on a fiddle.

Fiddleverb

To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.

Fiddleverb

To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

Fiddlenoun

bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow

Fiddleverb

avoid (one's assigned duties);

Fiddleverb

commit fraud and steal from one's employer;

Fiddleverb

play the violin or fiddle

Fiddleverb

play on a violin;

Fiddleverb

manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination;

Fiddleverb

play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly;

Fiddleverb

try to fix or mend;

Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music.

Riddlenoun

A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.

Riddlenoun

An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.

Riddlenoun

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

Riddlenoun

A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

Riddlenoun

(obsolete) A curtain; bed-curtain

Riddlenoun

(religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south

Riddleverb

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Riddleverb

(transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.

Riddleverb

To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.

Riddleverb

To fill with holes like a riddle.

Riddleverb

To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.

Riddleverb

To plait

Riddlenoun

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

Riddlenoun

A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

Riddlenoun

Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

Riddleverb

To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.

Riddleverb

To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.

Riddleverb

To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

Riddleverb

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Riddlenoun

a difficult problem

Riddlenoun

a coarse sieve (as for gravel)

Riddleverb

pierce many times;

Riddleverb

set a difficult problem or riddle;

Riddleverb

separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

Riddleverb

speak in riddles

Riddleverb

explain a riddle

Riddle

A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer.