fiddler

Plural: fiddlers

Noun

• a musician who plays the violin
• someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner
• an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend
• One who plays the fiddle.
• One who fiddles; a cheat.
• One who fiddles or tweaks.
• 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.
• 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.
• A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
• A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing.
• The capstan-house on a steamer.

Synonyms

fiddleist, fiddlist, tinkerer, twiddler, violinist