different between fiddler vs fiddlier

English

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

fiddler (plural fiddlers)

One who plays the fiddle.
One who fiddles.
- 2005, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The drama of my life (in The Independent online, [1])
  We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.
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.

fiddlier

Send