refiddle

To fiddle again.

Verb

  1. To fiddle again.
    • 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...
    • There is now again an argument among the military about which laws to change and which parts of the temporary constitution to refiddle. - 1979, The Economist - Volume 272, page 44:
    • 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. - 2000, Hayford...

Origin

From re- + fiddle.

Forms

refiddles refiddling refiddled

Derived

refiddle with