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fiddle
Synonyms and Antonyms of fiddle
- oh, fiddle! I've heard that excuse a thousand times before
applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle
- the e-mail was another one of those fiddles from some supposed Nigerian millionaire seeking to transfer funds out of his country
fiddle
Synonyms and Antonyms of fiddle
- the executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin
- conscienceless grifters who had spent their lives fiddling the naive
beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
fiddle (around)
Synonyms and Antonyms of fiddle (around)
- we spent the snow day just fiddling around
doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang about [British], kick around, mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
fiddle (with)
Synonyms and Antonyms of fiddle (with)
- I could tell that someone had been fiddling with the carefully set controls on my entertainment system
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