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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Nonsense.
  2. v. To fritter away one's time; dally.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To trifle; busy one's self with nothing; talk trifling nonsense; dawdle; dally.
  2. n. Trifling talk; trifles. Also fiddle-cum-faddle and fidfad.
  3. Trifling; making a bustle about nothing.

Wiktionary

  1. n. nonsense

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. colloq. A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense.
  2. v. colloq. To talk nonsense.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. trivial nonsense

Etymologies

  1. Reduplication of fiddle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Or are we just going to fiddle-faddle re-arranging the objects of our concern on that great addictive ship -- America?”

    Stanton Peele: What Is Addiction?

  • “As you can see, I don't fuss with a doughnut cutter and holes and all that fiddle-faddle.”

    Archive 2009-03-01

  • “All this wasted 2-step fiddle-faddle can come to a screeching halt.”

    Time for America to go Metric? Youbecha!

  • “I was very pleased with my first attempt, bit of a fiddle-faddle, but tasted great.”

    Polish Christmas food | the POLSKI blog

  • “It's just more ridiculous fiddle-faddle perpetuating the conservative Big Lies they've been pimping since forever.”

    rolling blackout

  • “She drove over constantly from Roehampton and entertained her friend with faint fashionable fiddle-faddle and feeble Court slip-slop.”

    Vanity Fair

  • “Well might the merit of your passion be doubted, you say, if, like Mr. Solmes — fiddle-faddle! —”

    Clarissa Harlowe

  • “Teutonic, Maltese, etc., are surely better subjects of conversation, than the weather, dress, or fiddle-faddle stories, that carry no information along with them.”

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

  • “And then, we watched Fox Game day and ate a whole box of fiddle-faddle together.”

    comes and goes

  • “I need not remind you of the fiddle-faddle sentimentality that goes down so well with all women; you spill a few drops of water on your stationery, for instance; those are the tears you shed while far away from her.”

    Father Goriot

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. trifle
  1. nonsense

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. hokum
  1. nonsense
  1. nonsensicality
  1. meaninglessness
  1. bunk

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. pittiful
  2. shemade
  3. shamefacedness
  4. too-often
  1. predistribution
  2. land-shark
  3. will-less
  4. wigging
  1. committment
  2. masterwork
  3. afterword
  4. nonsensical
  1. Philippic
  2. get-rich-quick
  3. plaguy
  4. confab
  1. well-devised
  2. dreffle
  3. fault-finder
  4. non-paying

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. fiddle-cum-faddle
  1. fidfad

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  1. reduplicative
  1. ppwp_funtosay

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  • minerva Fiddle-faddle, foolish man!-- what a pother is here!-- I guess how it is: you are ashamed to let us see what sort of people you carried your lady among!

    The false Lady Betty Lawrance, as quoted by Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Jan 4, 2008

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