different between piddler vs fiddler

English

Etymology

piddle +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

piddler (plural piddlers)

1. One who piddles; a trifler or time-waster.
2. (slang) One who urinates.
3. (prison slang) A prisoner who works in a craft shop.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?d?l?(?)/, /?f?dl?(?)/

Noun

fiddler (plural fiddlers)

1. One who plays the fiddle.
2. 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.

3. 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.
4. 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.
5. A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.

Synonyms

• fiddlist, fiddleist (both dated)

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• Friddle