Found 2 items, similar to fiddling.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fiddling fiddling adj : (informal terms) small and of little importance; “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”; “Mickey Mouse regulations”; “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” [syn: footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fiddling Fiddle \Fid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fiddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fiddling.] 1. To play on a fiddle. [1913 Webster] Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. [1913 Webster] Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. --Pepys. [1913 Webster]