Definitions
Etymologies
- From pl. of fiddlestick, bow for playing a fiddle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But the moment you interfere with the free choice of the individual and dominate toward your choice, regardless of his own, you enter the realm of hypnosis; deprive him, just to that degree, of free choice, and might as well call it "fiddlesticks" as "suggestion.”
“I mean what does Barack need to do ... disown the whole world? these people should have sat down pfleger long ago if he was so "troubling" ... as my pastor would say "fiddlesticks!" andrew”
“And did Greg say fiddlesticks after his steed was absconded with.”
“Now I gotta wait for the next one - fiddlesticks ...”
““Water-fiddlesticks, my dear!” said the professor; and he turned away sharply.”
“So, Iain, are you saying the crime of perjury is fiddlesticks ?”
“I have no idea why, but the paisley shawl from fiddlesticks is what really stood out to me.”
“Your pure mind is going as dry as fiddlesticks, from what I see of it.”
““All these are foolish illusions ... fiddlesticks!””
“You win eight shillings? you win eight fiddlesticks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fiddlesticks’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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Interesting Expletives
Non-4-letter word expletives, invectives, and exclamations.
blows goats, oh my head, binger, conger, copper penny, sucks to your ass..., criminey, bongies, nob wipe, fiddlesticks, hells bells, jump'n jesus and 5 more...
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Expressions of disbelief or disagreement
bollocks, come off it, rubbish, as if, bullshit, guff, i don't believe it, are you mad, tosh, nonsense, garbage, bunkum and 58 more...
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Mr. Prolagus is surprised
Words - or different usages of words I already knew - that I am learning thanks to Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
See also ofravens' with thanks to Anne Shirley.alder, decorum, ferret, dint, wont, gauntlet, turnip, sorrel, deft, embower, scant, peck and 92 more...
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That's right, another list
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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mad the wordie
words that I like
sparsile, inchoate, asparagus, dendrochronology, primifluous, psalloid, cetacean, roots, birches, spires, mythopeia, intricate and 167 more...
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gosh darn it to heck!
gosh, darn, heck, shoot, nuts, rats, poop, poo poo, dang, fiddlesticks, wash it, frick and 11 more...
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they trip off the tongue
interesting compounds
flummadiddle, flapdoodle, lickety-split, jiggery-pokery, whangdoodle, whippersnapper, mumbo jumbo, shilly-shally, fiddle-faddle, topsy-turvy, fuddy-duddy, hugger-mugger and 38 more...
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minced oaths
expostulations which originated as euphemisms for a stronger, socially unsanctioned, word or expression
strewth, zounds, land sakes, jiminy cricket, gorblimey, drat, begorrah, cripes, doggone it, gadzooks, odds bodkins, sacre bleu and 78 more...
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F is for Flea Circus
My F Words
fire engine red, fanboy, fancy pants, fanzine, feeling fist, femme fatale, fiasco, fiddle faddle, fiddlesticks, filibuster, flannel, flea circus and 41 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fiddlesticks.
marky found something i liked on the images on 'fiddlesticks' of all things. first time thats ever happened. usually the pics are LAME.
incidentally this is the pic here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravenelle/2746349815 Aug 10, 2011
hernesheir One might wonder why the plural for a singular item used for bowing stringed instruments. Here's why I believe the definition associated with this page is incorrect.
In old-time music the fiddle is sometimes played by two people at the same time, with one player bowing and fingering, while a second player stands to the side and taps out a rhythm on the fiddle strings using two small-diameter sticks or dowels called fiddlesticks (also spelled "fiddle sticks"). This technique is also called "beating the straws". Sep 27, 2009
erinoftheyear Aww fiddlesticks! Aug 16, 2007