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fiddlenoun language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good senseoh, fiddle! I've heard that excuse a thousand times before applesauce(slang), balderdash, baloney(also boloney), beans, bilge, blah(also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull(slang), bunk, bunkum(or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop(British), crapola(slang), crock, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel(British), flapdoodle, folderol(also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers(slang), humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey(also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts(slang), nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle(or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacyabsurdness, craziness, madness, witlessnesshoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolerygas, hot air, rigmarole(also rigamarole)double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensiblenesscommon sense, horse sense, sensediscernment, judgment(or judgement), wisdom chiefly Britishan instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of valuethe e-mail was another one of those fiddles from some supposed Nigerian millionaire seeking to transfer funds out of his country bunco(or bunko), con, flimflam, fraud, gyp, hustle, scam, shell game, sting, swindle cross, fixPonzi scheme, pyramid schemeracket, rip-offthimblerig, three-card montedevice, dodge, gimmick, jig, ploy, scheme, sleight, stratagem, trick, wilegouging, overcharging, soakingcounterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug, phony(also phoney), sham fiddleverbto make jerky or restless movementsthe executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin fidget, jerk, jig, jiggle, squiggle, squirm, thrash, thresh, toss, twist, twitch, wiggle, wriggle, writhe flit, flutter, twitterquake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremblepace relax, rest, unwindcalm (down), still to rob by the use of trickery or threatsconscienceless grifters who had spent their lives fiddling the naive beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, mulct, nobble(British slang), pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners in the 13th century |