faddle
fiddle away
mess around
touch
piggle
minstrel
fiddling
second fiddle
fiddle
fuss
feddle
lickspittle
playable
bash out
horse around
offthrow
vivace
divide
cook
timoroso
drop
unga bunga
fiddlefart
niggle
espressivo
put on
scrape
tootle
rinforzando
flick
twang
rompish
diviso
play on
fiddler
bepelt
serve and volley
replay
risoluto
animato
make music
thick-and-thin block
belabour
attune
flam
melodize
handplay
moderato
play
toy
rompery
Hardanger fiddler
shit on
belabor
go on the mitch
lek
jogger
playless
romp
noodle
rump
gaggle
tittup
pianola
gambol
jukebox
sport
twiddle
tick
fooster
hardingfele
know
word play
bethwack
tweedle
lark
jaculate
bejape
disport
meet
allegro ma non troppo
skylark
cavort
fumfer
run around
frisk
bop
lark about
playingly
frolic
rollick
tambourine
quoit
wag
playable
vivace
rompish
diviso
moderato
playless
timoroso
espressivo
diviso
risoluto
animato
allegro ma non troppo
playingly
fiddling
second fiddle
rinforzando
fiddler
thick-and-thin block
handplay
rompery
Hardanger fiddler
pianola
hardingfele
word play
faddle
fiddle away
mess around
touch
piggle
minstrel
fiddle
fuss
feddle
lickspittle
bash out
horse around
offthrow
divide
cook
drop
unga bunga
niggle
put on
scrape
tootle
flick
twang
play on
bepelt
serve and volley
replay
make music
belabour
attune
flam
melodize
play
toy
shit on
belabor
go on the mitch
lek
jogger
romp
noodle
rump
gaggle
tittup
gambol
jukebox
sport
twiddle
tick
fooster
know
bethwack
tweedle
lark
jaculate
bejape
disport
meet
skylark
cavort
fumfer
run around
frisk
bop
lark about
frolic
rollick
tambourine
quoit
wag
verb
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To play (a tune on a musical instrument); to sing (a song).
- To act as a minstrel; to entertain by playing a musical instrument, singing, etc.
noun
- One of a troupe of entertainers, often a white person who wore black makeup (blackface), to present a so-called minstrel show, being a variety show of banjo music, dance, and song (now sometimes regarded as racist).
- Any lyric poet, musician, or singer.
- Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment.
- An amphetamine tablet, typically black, or black and white, in colour.
verb
- To fidget or play; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness.
- To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- To cheat or swindle; to commit fraud.
- Synonym of tinker, to make small adjustments or improvements.
noun
- Synonym of workaround, a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- Synonym of clown: an unserious person entertaining a group.
- Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- Synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; (usually proscribed) any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
verb
- To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- To share (something) by dividing it.
- To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- To be a divisor of.
- To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
noun
verb
- To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- To concoct or prepare.
- To play music vigorously.
- To execute by electric chair.
- To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
- To be uncomfortably hot.
- To be cooked.
- To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
noun
verb
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
verb
- To play (a recording).
- To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
- To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
- To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
- To perform for an audience.
- To organize a performance for an audience.
- To fool, kid, deceive.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
- To bet on.
verb
- To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
- To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- To barely manage to achieve.
- To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
noun
- A shave.
- A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
verb
- To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
- To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.
noun
- A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
- A flitch.
- A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
- A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
- The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
- A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
- A powerful underarm volley shot.
verb
- To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
- To have a nasal sound.
- To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
noun
- An annoying or stupid person, recalcitrant.
- The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
- A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- A sharp, disagreeable taste or flavor.
adj
adv
noun
noun
- One who plays the fiddle.
- One who fiddles; a cheat.
- A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
- A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
- The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
verb
noun
verb
- To act or perform (a play).
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
verb
noun
verb
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
- To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- To engage in frivolous behaviour; to fool around or waste time.
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- To ponder or think about (something).
noun
- A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- The brain; the head.
- An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
verb
- To amuse oneself, to play.
- To display; to have as a notable feature.
- To close (a door).
- To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- To represent by any kind of play.
noun
- Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- A sportsman; a gambler.
- One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
verb
- To strike gently; to pat.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- To go on trust, or credit.
- To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
- To give tick; to trust.
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
noun
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- Credit, trust.
- The whinchat.
- A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A short period of time, particularly a second.
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- Ticking.
- A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
verb
- To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
- To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
- To experience.
- To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
- To be or become aware or cognizant.
- To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
- To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
- To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
noun
noun
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see word, play.
- A technique in which the nature of the words used become part of the subject of the work, such as puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names.
verb
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To play a match.
- To balance or come out correct.
- To come together in conflict.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
noun
- The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- A meeting.
- A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
verb
verb
verb
verb
verb
noun
- A tambourine dove.
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- The music for this dance.
- A kind of Provençal dance.
verb
noun
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