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English
Etymology
From re- + fiddle.
Verb
refiddle (third-person singular simple present refiddles, present participle refiddling, simple past and past participle refiddled)
- To fiddle again.
1975, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives:But the Minister for gerrymander made sure Tasmania was examined again so he could refiddle the boundaries and push them this way, that way and another way, in the great hope that the Labor Party could be perpetuated in office.
1979, The Economist - Volume 272, page 44:There is now again an argument among the military about which laws to change and which parts of the temporary constitution to refiddle.
2000, Hayford Peirce, Chap Foey Rider: Capitalist to the Stars, →ISBN, page 66:You will refiddle the returns . . . er, that is, you will reevaluate my personal return, so that 1 am liable for a payment of . . . oh, let us say . . . seven and one half percent of gross income.
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