Reverse Dictionary: FIDDLE (musical)

ADJECTIVES
► THARM-INSPIRING inspiring by music played on a fiddle → 1787 Sc. obs.

NOUNS
► BOSH a fiddle → 1859 sl.
► BOX a fiddle → 1845 Amer. sl.
► CROWD a fiddle → a1627 obs., exc. Eng. dial.
► DEVIL’S MUSIC BOX the fiddle → 1949 Amer. dial.
► EAR a tuning peg, as on a fiddle or guitar → c1938 African-American sl.
► FIDDLE-BOX a fiddle, a violin → 1928 Amer. dial.
► MAWSIE a poor-sounding fiddle → 1790 Sc.
► SCRAPER the bow of a fiddle; a fiddlestick → 1843 Eng. dial.
► THARM catgut; a fiddle-string → 1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► JIGGER a fiddlestick → 1896 sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAND-SCRAPER a fiddler → 1894 Eng. dial.
► BANT-SCRAPER a fiddler → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BOSH-FAKER one who plays a fiddle → 1859 sl.
► BOSHMAN one who plays a fiddle → 1865 sl.
► BOW a fiddler → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOW-HAN’ a fiddler; a fiddler’s right hand → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CATGUT-SCRAPER a fiddler → 18C jocular colloq.
► CROWDER a person who plays a ‘crowd’; a fiddler → c1450 Eng. dial.
► GIGOUR a musician; a fiddler → a1300 obs.
► GUT-SCRAPER a fiddler; a violinist → a1720 sl.
► GUT-VEXER a fiddler → 17C colloq.
► SCRAPER a term of contempt for a fiddler → 1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRAPPER a term of contempt for a fiddler → 1821 Sc.
► TEASER OF THE CATGUT a fiddler → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► VIOLER a player of the viol; a fiddler → 1808 Sc.

VERBS
► BUMFIDDLE 1. to play for a person on the fiddle → 1656 obs.
2. to play a song badly on the fiddle → 1808 obs.
► CROWD to play the ‘crowd’; to fiddle → 1589 obs.
► DIDDLE to jog up and down, to make short motions and turns as in fiddling → 1864 Sc.
► FAKE A BOSH to play the fiddle → 1890 sl. (Bk.)
► PLAY SCARTLE of an unskilful fiddler: to make a scraping sound → 1823 Sc.
► SCREED to cry, to scream; to produce any sharp sound; to move up and down so as to produce a sound, as a fiddle-bow over the strings → 1706 Sc. obs.
► TICKLE THE MINIKIN to play the lute or fiddle → 17C sl.