fiddly

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Requiring dexterity to operate.
    — The buttons on the tiny mobile phone were too fiddly.
  2. Having many small bits or embellishments. broadly
    — See, Barbados, like certain other fiddly little islands— Antigua, Saint Lucia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, Great Britain, Australia— is filled with a genus of hotspurs fiercely dedicated to motoring on the wrong side of the road.
  3. Of or relating to fiddling or fidgeting.
    — I can divide my movements into two types: gross motor and fine motor (in other words, large movements and small, fiddly movements) and, as I have already described, I have far more problems with the latter than the former.
  4. Pertaining to occasional under-the-table work by people who receive unemployment benefits
    — Because benefit dependence was understood to confine people to poverty ('bend the rules - you've got to in this world cause of the pittance you get off the government') and because doing fiddly work indicated a commitment to self-reliance ('at least they're working') it was widely condoned.

词形变化

fiddlier comparative fiddliest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
fiddliness

词源

From fiddle + -y, from the verb.
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