fiddle with

1. 1.

   manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner

   “He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview”

   Synonymstwiddle

   Broadermanipulate

Questions about fiddle with

What does fiddle with mean?

fiddle with means "manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner".

What is another word for fiddle with?

Close synonyms include twiddle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fiddle with a common word?

fiddle with is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.