fiddler
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• noun
A musician who plays the fiddle or violin, especially in traditional, folk, or country music.
"The lively fiddler kept the crowd dancing at the barn dance until midnight."
Any of various small semiterrestrial crabs of the family Ocypodidae (fiddler crabs), found along mudflats and salt marshes, in which the male possesses one greatly enlarged claw held in a position resembling a fiddle.
"Hundreds of fiddlers scurried into their burrows along the muddy riverbank as the tide receded."
British A person who falsifies financial accounts or engages in petty fraud and swindling.
"The audit exposed the bookkeeper as a habitual tax fiddler who had falsified expense reports for years."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'fiðelere', derived from the verb 'fiðelian' (to play the fiddle), of Germanic origin and possibly related to Medieval Latin 'vitula' (stringed instrument).