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refiddle en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + fiddle.

Meanings

  1. To fiddle again.
    • But the Minister for gerrymander made sure Tasmania was examined again so he could refiddle the boundaries and push them this way, that way and another way, in the great hope that the Labor Party could be perpetuated in office. 1975, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives:
    • You will refiddle the returns . . . er, that is, you will reevaluate my personal return, so that 1 am liable for a payment of . . . oh, let us say . . . seven and one half percent of gross income. 2000, Hayford Peirce, Chap Foey Rider: Capitalist to the Stars, →ISBN, page 66:
    • There is now again an argument among the military about which laws to change and which parts of the temporary constitution to refiddle. 1979, The Economist - Volume 272, page 44:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
refiddles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
refiddled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
refiddled Tense=Past lexicographic
refiddling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

refiddle with