fiddle
意味
- 《話》バイオリン(violin)
- 《俗》詐欺行為
ぺてん - バイオリンをひく
- (物を)いじくる,もてあそぶ《+with+名》
- のらくらして暇をつぶす《+around(about)》
- 〈曲など〉をバイオリンでひく
- 〈時間〉をむだに過ごす《+away+名,+名+away》
- 〈税金・数字など〉をごまかす
例文
You're certainly looking fit as a fiddle today.
今日はとても元気そうだね。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English fithele, from Old English *fiþele, from Proto-West Germanic *fiþulā, from Proto-Germanic *fiþulǭ (“fiddle”), of uncertain etymology. Some contest that the Germanic terms are borrowed variations of Late Latin vitula (see viola); others contest that the word has a separate origin within Germanic languages, and still others believe that the Late Latin term for the stringed instrument is a borrowing from Germanic as a change of Latin t to Germanic þ is highly improbable, yet Germanic þ to Latin t is well documented (see troop, trousers, Teobaldo, etc.).