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Definition of Fiddly
1. intricately difficult to handle [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiddly
Literary usage of Fiddly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, William Smith (1753)
"... but in regard to war to be fiddly neutral ?" ATHENIANS. " N O. For all your
enmity cannot hurt us fo much as Che ac- " ceptance of fuch ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... Calton-hill, and at last from the most eligible site of any, St Andrew's
Square, fiddly determined on Melville Street, so long ago as July 1819, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1898)
"... he had heard that such vagaries were everyday occurrences upon the coast, and
when he stood above the “fiddly-gratings” the ..."
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