Associations to the word «Fiddling»

Wiktionary

FIDDLING, verb. Present participle of fiddle
FIDDLING, noun. Action of the verb to fiddle
FIDDLING, adjective. Of petty or trivial importance; footling
FIDDLING WITH, verb. Present participle of fiddle with

Dictionary definition

FIDDLING, adjective. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin