Adjacent Words
Fiddlefiddle around
fiddle away
Fiddle beetle
Fiddle block
Fiddle bow
fiddle dock
fiddle faddle
Fiddle fish
Fiddle head
Fiddle pattern
fiddle with
fiddle-de-dee
fiddle-footed
fiddle-shaped
Fiddle-stick
Fiddle-string
Fiddle-wood
fiddleback
Fiddled
Fiddledeedee
fiddlehead
fiddlehead fern
fiddleneck
Fiddler
fiddler crab
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FID'DLE-FADDLE, n. Trifles. [A low cant word.]
FID'DLE-FADDLE, a. Trifling; making a bustle about nothing. [Vulgar.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle]
Merriam Webster's
noun Etymology: reduplication of fiddle (fiddlesticks) Date: 1577 nonsense — often used as an interjection
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n., v., int., & adj. --n. trivial matters. --v.intr. fuss, trifle. --int. nonsense! --adj. (of a person or thing) petty, fussy. Etymology: redupl. of FIDDLE
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Fiddle-faddle Fid"dle-fad`dle, v. i. To talk nonsense. [Colloq.] --Ford.
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
I. n. (Colloq. ) Nonsense, trifling, frivolity, stuff, twaddle, twattle, prate, gabble, gibberish, gibble-gabble.II. a. (Colloq. ) Foolish, nonsensical, trifling, frivolous, trivial, idle, fiddling, twattling, prating, gabbling.
