FIDDLE (2)

fiddle (2). Fiddle, v. to play on a fiddle, trifle, do little, idle

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Fid″dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fiddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fiddling (?).] 1. 1. To play on a fiddle.
Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. Bacon. 2. 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.
Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. Pepys.