fiddler

Meaning

Noun

• One who plays the fiddle.
• One who fiddles.
• 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 (species), of eastern Australia; cherry nose.

Related

Similar words

• fiddlist, fiddleist

Origin

• From Middle English fiþelere, from Old English fiþelere, from fiþele. Equivalent to fiddle + -er.