present participle and gerund of fiddle
He was fiddling while Rome burned.
The playing of music on a fiddle.
The act of fidgeting.
Tweaking; manipulation.
[W]e, her doctors […] seemed powerless to prevent [side-effects], despite all our reassurances, and all our fiddlings and manipulations with the dosage[…]
Of petty or trivial importance; footling
It was a fiddling little fault, but ultimately proved disastrous.
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