fiddlers
String players, informally
Fiddlers are people who play the fiddle—a violin used for folk, country, or traditional music rather than classical.
The term carries associations of informal settings: barn dances, Irish pubs, Appalachian front porches.
Fiddler also means someone who fiddles, in the sense of tinkering or wasting time.
A fiddler crab has one oversized claw that moves like a bow across strings.
Players of bowed strings
- folk musiciansTraditional acoustic performers
- string playersMusicians plucking or bowing
- session playersHired studio instrumentalists
- bowRespectful forward inclination
rosin · reels · bluegrass · Celtic music · Appalachian · barn dance · hoedown · breakdown
Clawed marine decapods
- burrowsAnimal-dug underground shelters
- mudflatsCoastal areas exposed at low tide
- clawsAnimal gripping nails
- salt marshCoastal wetland with halophytes
tidal · waving · mangroves · estuaries · beaches · sand · molting · carapace
Those who interfere uninvited
- tinkerersCasual experimenters with objects
- fussersThose who overreact trivially
- adjustersThose who make corrections
- tweakersMethamphetamine abusers
tamperers · dabblers · puttering · fumbling · fussing · messing · handling · touching
Nonprescription reading glasses
- swindlersDeceivers who steal through trickery
- manipulatorsPeople who influence deceitfully
- falsifiersThose who distort truth
- embezzlersThose who steal entrusted funds
cooking the books · financial fraud · accountants · auditors · tax evasion · expense reports · figures · numbers
violinists
Players of bowed strings
- folk musiciansTraditional acoustic performers
- string playersMusicians plucking or bowing
- session playersHired studio instrumentalists
bow · rosin · reels · bluegrass · Celtic music · Appalachian · barn dance · hoedown · breakdown · old-time
crabs
Clawed marine decapods
- burrowsAnimal-dug underground shelters
- mudflatsCoastal areas exposed at low tide
- clawsAnimal gripping nails
salt marsh · tidal · waving · mangroves · estuaries · beaches · sand · molting · carapace · courtship display
meddlers
Those who interfere uninvited
- tinkerersCasual experimenters with objects
- fussersThose who overreact trivially
- adjustersThose who make corrections
tweakers · tamperers · dabblers · puttering · fumbling · fussing · messing · handling · touching · manipulating
cheaters
Nonprescription reading glasses
- swindlersDeceivers who steal through trickery
- manipulatorsPeople who influence deceitfully
- falsifiersThose who distort truth
embezzlers · cooking the books · financial fraud · accountants · auditors · tax evasion · expense reports · figures · numbers · records
- community eventsparade, parades, festival, festivals, fair
- folk festivalsBeltane, Samhain, maypole, Midsummer, Harvest Festival
- makersmakers, filmmaker, crafter, watchmaker, crafters
- rodeobull riding, bareback riding, bronc riding, calf roping, team roping
- AppalachiansAppalachians, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge
- SouthernersAlabaman, Alabamian, Alabamians, Arkansan, Arkansans
fiddlerspianists
Keyboard instrument performers
drummers · percussionists · trumpeters · vocalists · singers
fiddlersstraight shooters
Forthright, honest individuals
truth-tellers · whistleblowers · honest brokers · auditors · watchdogs
- fiddle withAdjust idly or nervously
- fit as a fiddleIn excellent physical condition
- second fiddleSubordinate position or role
- play second fiddleOccupy secondary rank
- fiddled aroundSpent time unproductively
- fiddled withCasually manipulated without purpose
fiddle, fiddles, fiddled, fiddler, fiddlesticks, fiddle-faddle, fiddlestick