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- noun Plural form of
fiddling .
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Examples
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It includes 31 pieces, and the lesser among them feel powerless, the fiddlings of people left with no more effective way to make a mark.
New 'Vantage Point' show at American Indian museum shows off symbolic power Blake Gopnik 2010
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One reason the LOTR films are so bad is the seemingly endless number of minor alterations - little fiddlings with the plot and characters - that serve to constantly replace something that in Tolkien is strange and different with something that is .... well, not strange and different.
Bleak House 2006
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Made cocky by my minor fiddlings around the edges of Folk, Comma, American, I checked the album in a convenient Tower Records, not tarot, but isn't that neat?
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2003
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Eventually their random fiddlings convinced the dataset that somebody really young had opened up the box, and it shifted into kindermode.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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Hercule Poirot took a deep breath, stepped up, sat down, and relaxed his head to Mr. Morley's profes sional fiddlings.
One Two Buckle My Shoe Christie, Agatha 1940
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I believe it was one of his fiddlings that sent Nature into convulsions and caused the destruction of Pompeii -- so there!
A House-Boat on the Styx John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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Whether it was mere good-nature or any warmer impulse, Phoebe was strangely tolerant of these fiddlings, and would go on playing for hours with serene composure, never tired and never impatient.
Phoebe, Junior 1862
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Just from my own fiddlings -- did you receive my offline message?
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Just from my own fiddlings -- did you receive my offline message?
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JimFullerton 2010
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Just from my own fiddlings -- did you receive my offline message?
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JimFullerton 2010
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