fiddling

Adjective

Synonyms: footling lilliputian little niggling piddling piffling petty picayune trivial

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

(informal) small and of little importance“a fiddling sum of money”“a footling gesture”“our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war”“a little (or small) matter”“a dispute over niggling details”“limited to petty enterprises”“piffling efforts”“giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction”Synonyms: footling lilliputian little niggling piddling piffling petty picayune trivial

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Fiddle \Fid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fiddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fiddling.]

1.To play on a fiddle. [1913 Webster]

Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

2.To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. [1913 Webster]

Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.— Pepys.[1913 Webster]