different between hiddle vs fiddle

English

Alternative forms

• hidel, hidle
• hiddil, heddle, hydle
• hidels, hydles

Etymology

From Middle English hidel, hydel, an alteration, due to final s mistaken for the plural ending, of Middle English hidils, hudels (“hiding-place, concealment”), from Old English h?dels (“a place of concealment, hiding-place, cavern, cave”), equivalent to hide +? -le. For loss of final s compare burial, riddle. More at hide, huddle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?d?l/

Noun

hiddle (plural hiddles)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A hiding-place; a sheltered spot.
2. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A cluster, small group of buildings, etc. set close together; a huddle.

Derived terms

• but hidel
• hidel-like
• in hidel

Related terms

• hide
• hideling

Verb

hiddle (third-person singular simple present hiddles, present participle hiddling, simple past and past participle hiddled)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To hide; conceal.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To nestle closely; take shelter.
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To shelter (in one's arms).

Scots

Alternative forms

• hiddil, hidle, heddle

Etymology

From Early Scots hidlis (“hiding places”), from hiddil (“concealment”), from Middle English hidels.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??d?l/

Noun

hiddle (plural hiddles)

1. A hiding place or shelter.

Adverb

hiddle (comparative mair hiddle, superlative maist hiddle)

1. In a mysterious fashion.

Verb

hiddle (third-person singular present hiddles, present participle hiddlin, past hiddlet, past participle hiddlet)

1. To hide or conceal.
2. To take shelter or nestle closely.

English

Etymology

From Middle English fithele, from Old English fiþele. Cognate with Old High German fidula (German Fiedel), Middle Dutch vedele (Dutch vedel, veel), Old Norse fiðla (Icelandic fiðla, Danish fiddel, Norwegian fela).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?d(?)l/
• (General American) enPR: f?d?l, IPA^(key): /?f?dl?/, [?f??l?]
• Hyphenation: fid?dle
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Noun

fiddle (plural fiddles)

1. (music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.

   Synonym: violin

2. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
3. An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.

4. A fraud; a scam.
5. (nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects falling off at sea. (Also fiddle rail)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• crowd, crwth

Verb

fiddle (third-person singular simple present fiddles, present participle fiddling, simple past and past participle fiddled)

1. To play aimlessly.

   • Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.

   You're fiddling your life away.

2. (transitive) To adjust or manipulate for deception or fraud.

   I needed to fiddle the lighting parameters to get the image to look right.

   Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.

3. (music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates

     Themistocles […] said he could not fiddle, but yet he could make a small town a great city.

4. To touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way, or tinker with something in an attempt to make minor adjustments or improvements.

Synonyms

• (to adjust in order to cover a basic flaw): fudge

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• fritter