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"fiddling" Definition

  1. doing any odd jobs in the streets, holding horses, carrying parcels, &c., for a living. Among the middle classes, FIDDLING means idling away time, or trifling, and amongst sharpers it means gambling.

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Position in the dictionary: 1220 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: field, field-lane duck, fieri-facias., fig, fig-leaf, figaro, figure, filch, file, filibuster
Previous words in the dictionary: fiddles, fiddlers’ green, fiddler, fiddle-sticks!, fiddle-faddle, fiddle-face, fiddle, fid-fad, fibbing, fib

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