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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fiddle with |
| Synonyms: | dabble, doodle, fix, mess with, mess*, monkey*, muck about, niggle, play, play with, puddle, putter, repair, take apart, toy, trifle with |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | migrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who moves to a foreign place |
| Synonyms: | departer, drifter, emigrant, evacuee, expatriate, gypsy, immigrant, itinerant, migrator, mover, nomad, rover, tinker, transient, traveler, vagrant, wanderer |
| Main Entry: | monkey |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fiddle, tamper with |
| Synonyms: | busybody, butt in, fool, fool around, fool with, horn in, interfere, interlope, intermeddle, make*, meddle, mess, play, pry, tinker, trifle |
| Notes: | a monkey is a primate and not a type of ape, an ape is a primate and not a type of monkey, and a chimpanzee is a type of ape (so it's a primate but not a monkey) |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | putter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dawdle |
| Synonyms: | doodle, fiddle, fritter, goof around, loiter, mess, mess around, niggle, poke*, potter, puddle, shuffle around, tinker |
| Antonyms: | execute |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tamper |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | interfere, alter |
| Synonyms: | busybody, butt in, change, cook, cut, damage, destroy, diversify, doctor, fiddle with, fool, horn in, interlope, interpose, intrude, irrigate, manipulate, meddle, mess around with, monkey around, muck about, phony up, plant*, poke nose into, spike*, tinker, vary, water* |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jack-of-all-trades |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handy person |
| Synonyms: | factotum, handyman, pantologist, proteus, tinker |
| Main Entry: | doodle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | draw casually |
| Synonyms: | draw, fiddle, putter, scribble, tinker, trifle |
| Main Entry: | twiddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fiddle |
| Synonyms: | dabble, doodle, feel, fidget, finger*, fool, handle*, interfere, mess around, mess*, monkey*, play, potter, puddle, putter, tamper, tinker, touch*, toy, trifle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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