What is the meaning of fiddling?

verb

• Avoid (one's assigned duties. )
  • usage: "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
  • synonyms: fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick
• Commit fraud and steal from one's employer.
  • usage: "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"
  • synonyms: fiddle
• Play the violin or fiddle.
  • synonyms: fiddle
• Play on a violin.
  • usage: "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"
  • synonyms: fiddle
• Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.
  • usage: "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
  • synonyms: toy, fiddle, diddle, play
• Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly.
  • usage: "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
  • synonyms: tamper, fiddle, monkey
• Try to fix or mend.
  • usage: "Can you tinker with the T. V. Set-it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"
  • synonyms: tinker, fiddle

adjective

• Informal) small and of little importance. (
  • usage: "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
  • synonyms: footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial