nonce-wd. [f. FIDDLE v. + -MENT.] The action of fiddling, an instance of this.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 157. An egregious fiddler, with long hair, who, in imitation of his predecessor, Paganini, gave out that he had sold himself to the devil, but who was, I believe, an arrant humbug with a mania for practising in the open air—it may have been as a medium of advertisement—and used to attract large crowds in the street beneath listening to his complicated fiddlements.
