fiddle-faddlen.adj.int.

Brit.

/ˈfɪdlˌfadl/, U.S.

/ˈfɪd(ə)lˌfæd(ə)l/

Etymology: This and the verb are reduplications with vowel variation of fiddle n. or faddle n.; compare German fickfack, and contemptuous formations like flim-flam, skimble-skamble, etc.

A. n.

1. Trifling talk or action; in plural trivial matters, trifling occupations or objects of attention.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > collectively

fiddle-faddle1577

fry1587

small beer1620

pigs and whistles1681

trantlesa1689

rattletrap1742

fewtrils1763

fritter1803

nugae1822

small beer1844

trick1877

trivia1902

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. i. sig. G.iiij/2 This more then neding fiddle faddle smacks somwhat of ambition.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 49 Away with these paultringe fidle-faddles.

1684 tr. H. C. Agrippa Vanity Arts & Sci. (new ed.) xxx. 86 The Fiddle-faddles and Trifles of Mathematicians.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §141 403 Come leave your Fiddlefaddles of Presumptions.

c1760 in T. B. Macaulay Ess. Pitt (1854) 308/2 No more they make a fiddle-faddle About a Hessian horse or saddle.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 8 July (1941) 72 The fiddle-faddle of arranging all the things was troublesome.

1849 F. Darwin Life & Lett. C. Darwin (1887) I. 377 Describing species of birds and shells, &c., is all fiddle-faddle.

1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xiii. 103 Where you just look on fiddle-faddles, while your dinner is behind a screen.

1887 A. Jessopp Arcady iv. 134 Collecting cards..and all the petty fiddlefaddle that is growing so stale.

2. An idler, trifler; a gossip, chatterbox.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting > one who

musardc1330

tifflerc1535

dalliera1568

pingler1578

puddlera1585

wag-wanton1601

fiddle-faddle1602

piddler1602

pedlara1625

potterer1837

frivolist1884

frivoller1889

tiddlywinker1893

muck-about1933

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips

kikelot?c1225

mathelild?c1225

cacklec1230

tutelerc1385

tittererc1400

roukera1425

trattlerc1485

flimmerc1530

tattler1549

chatter1561

gossip1566

gossiper1568

tittle-tattle1571

chatmate1599

fiddle-faddle1602

tittle-tattler1602

confabulator1659

twittle-twat1662

shat1709

prittle-prattle1725

tattle-basket1736

small-talker1762

nash-gab1816

granny1861

windjammer1880

schmoozer1899

scuttlebutt gossip1901

wag-tongue1902

coffee-houser1907

kibitzer1925

clatfarta1930

natterer1959

yacker1959

rapper1967

village gossip1972

1602 N. Breton Wonders Worth Hearing sig. B2^v Maide Marian in a Maurice daunce, would put her downe for a fiddle faddle.

1756 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 415 Mrs. Montagu, Mrs. Gosling, and two or three fiddle faddles.

1824 Westm. Rev. 2 337 Your true fiddle-faddle Somebody, who would be in high repute among his fellows.

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases (at cited word) A ‘viddle vaddle or viddle vaddler’.

B. adj.

Trifling, petty, fussy: said of persons as well as of things.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > fussing or small-minded

fistinga1535

petty1597

whiffling1613

leguleian1615

fiddle-faddle1617

leguleious1660

pottering1720

poking1748

niggling1827

poky1828

whifflegig1830

niggly1840

pistareen1860

petty-minded1927

1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. 298 A great deale more of such fiddle-faddle stuffe.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses viii. 39 They [liverymen] said, She was a troublesome fiddle faddle old Woman.

1727 D. Defoe Protestant Monastery 16 In any other fiddle faddle part of Life.

1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 164 So fiddle-faddle and so coquettish.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. vii. 69 The fiddle-faddle etiquette of the court.

C. int.

Nonsense! Bosh!

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > nonsense! [interjection]

strawc1412

tilly-vallya1529

flam-flirt1590

fiddlestick1600

fiddle-faddle1671

stuff1701

snuff1725

fudge1766

fiddlededeea1784

rats1816

havers1825

humbug1825

gammon1827

rubbish1839

pickles1846

rot1846

skittle1864

slush1869

flapdoodle1878

quatsch1907

phooey1908

tommyrot1931

balls1938

no shit1939

bollocks1940

phonus-bolonus1955

hockey1961

leave it out!1969

1671 T. Shadwell Humorists v Fiddle faddle on your Travelling and University.

1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy ii. i Fiddle, faddle; han't I wit enough already?

1779 F. Burney Let. 11 Jan. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 221 Dr. Johnson: Pho,— fiddle faddle,—do you suppose your Book is so much talked of, & not yourself?

1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow III. xv. 191 Oh, fiddle-faddle, my lord!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fiddle-faddlev.

Brit.

/ˈfɪdlˌfadl/, U.S.

/ˈfɪd(ə)lˌfæd(ə)l/

Etymology: See fiddle-faddle n.

intransitive. To be busy about petty trifles; to fuss, ‘mess about’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > bustle > fuss or make a fuss

nytelc1400

to make a matter1549

to keep a coil1568

squatter1593

fiddle-faddle1633

to play hell (with)1750

fuss1792

to play hell and Tommy1825

piggle1836

palavera1840

to make a time1844

friggle1848

fussify1868

to make a production of (or out of)1941

1633 J. Ford Broken Heart i. iii. sig. C2^v Ye may as easily Out-run a Cloud, driuen by a Northerne blast, As fiddle faddle so.

1776 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 202 Had you been bred up only to fiddle faddle, you would have fiddle faddled all your life.

1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 226 She has..fiddle-faddled about the garden, picking off half-a-dozen dead roses.

Derivatives

fiddle-faddling n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > brisk or active > bustling or fussing > about trifles

busy-idle1611

nugiperous1647

fidgeting1672

niffy-naffy1765

fingering1799

fussing1826

fussy1831

fiddle-faddling1834

spoffish1836

spoffy1860

fustling1867

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss > bustling or fussing > about trifles

fikery1823

fiddle-faddling1834

bettying1851

fussiness1851

fikiness1889

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. Pref. p. ix But lest I should chance to be considered here one of the tribe of that fiddle-fadling, dull old prosing pedant.

1850 A. H. Clough Corr. 19 June (1957) I. 284 Whatsoever your hand findeth to do, do it without fiddle faddling.

1861 M. E. Braddon Lady Lisle (1885) 36 I don't want him to be a fiddle-faddling girl.

1882 Society 14 Oct. 11/2 The mistaken notion..that detail is a substitute for spirit and fiddle-faddling for acting.

fiddle-faddler n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss > one who bustles or fusses > one who fusses about trifles

fidfad1754

niggler1781

busy idler1788

fiddle-faddler1846

1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Fiddle-faddler, a foolish trifler.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fiddle-faddle
释义	fiddle-faddlen.adj.int. Brit. /ˈfɪdlˌfadl/, U.S. /ˈfɪd(ə)lˌfæd(ə)l/ Etymology: This and the verb are reduplications with vowel variation of fiddle n. or faddle n.; compare German fickfack, and contemptuous formations like flim-flam, skimble-skamble, etc. A. n. 1. Trifling talk or action; in plural trivial matters, trifling occupations or objects of attention. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > collectively fiddle-faddle1577 fry1587 small beer1620 pigs and whistles1681 trantlesa1689 rattletrap1742 fewtrils1763 fritter1803 nugae1822 small beer1844 trick1877 trivia1902 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. i. sig. G.iiij/2 This more then neding fiddle faddle smacks somwhat of ambition. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 49 Away with these paultringe fidle-faddles. 1684 tr. H. C. Agrippa Vanity Arts & Sci. (new ed.) xxx. 86 The Fiddle-faddles and Trifles of Mathematicians. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §141 403 Come leave your Fiddlefaddles of Presumptions. c1760 in T. B. Macaulay Ess. Pitt (1854) 308/2 No more they make a fiddle-faddle About a Hessian horse or saddle. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 8 July (1941) 72 The fiddle-faddle of arranging all the things was troublesome. 1849 F. Darwin Life & Lett. C. Darwin (1887) I. 377 Describing species of birds and shells, &c., is all fiddle-faddle. 1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xiii. 103 Where you just look on fiddle-faddles, while your dinner is behind a screen. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady iv. 134 Collecting cards..and all the petty fiddlefaddle that is growing so stale. 2. An idler, trifler; a gossip, chatterbox. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting > one who musardc1330 tifflerc1535 dalliera1568 pingler1578 puddlera1585 wag-wanton1601 fiddle-faddle1602 piddler1602 pedlara1625 potterer1837 frivolist1884 frivoller1889 tiddlywinker1893 muck-about1933 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips kikelot?c1225 mathelild?c1225 cacklec1230 tutelerc1385 tittererc1400 roukera1425 trattlerc1485 flimmerc1530 tattler1549 chatter1561 gossip1566 gossiper1568 tittle-tattle1571 chatmate1599 fiddle-faddle1602 tittle-tattler1602 confabulator1659 twittle-twat1662 shat1709 prittle-prattle1725 tattle-basket1736 small-talker1762 nash-gab1816 granny1861 windjammer1880 schmoozer1899 scuttlebutt gossip1901 wag-tongue1902 coffee-houser1907 kibitzer1925 clatfarta1930 natterer1959 yacker1959 rapper1967 village gossip1972 1602 N. Breton Wonders Worth Hearing sig. B2^v Maide Marian in a Maurice daunce, would put her downe for a fiddle faddle. 1756 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 415 Mrs. Montagu, Mrs. Gosling, and two or three fiddle faddles. 1824 Westm. Rev. 2 337 Your true fiddle-faddle Somebody, who would be in high repute among his fellows. 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases (at cited word) A ‘viddle vaddle or viddle vaddler’. B. adj. Trifling, petty, fussy: said of persons as well as of things. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible > fussing or small-minded fistinga1535 petty1597 whiffling1613 leguleian1615 fiddle-faddle1617 leguleious1660 pottering1720 poking1748 niggling1827 poky1828 whifflegig1830 niggly1840 pistareen1860 petty-minded1927 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. 298 A great deale more of such fiddle-faddle stuffe. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses viii. 39 They [liverymen] said, She was a troublesome fiddle faddle old Woman. 1727 D. Defoe Protestant Monastery 16 In any other fiddle faddle part of Life. 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 164 So fiddle-faddle and so coquettish. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. vii. 69 The fiddle-faddle etiquette of the court. C. int. Nonsense! Bosh! ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > nonsense! [interjection] strawc1412 tilly-vallya1529 flam-flirt1590 fiddlestick1600 fiddle-faddle1671 stuff1701 snuff1725 fudge1766 fiddlededeea1784 rats1816 havers1825 humbug1825 gammon1827 rubbish1839 pickles1846 rot1846 skittle1864 slush1869 flapdoodle1878 quatsch1907 phooey1908 tommyrot1931 balls1938 no shit1939 bollocks1940 phonus-bolonus1955 hockey1961 leave it out!1969 1671 T. Shadwell Humorists v Fiddle faddle on your Travelling and University. 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy ii. i Fiddle, faddle; han't I wit enough already? 1779 F. Burney Let. 11 Jan. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 221 Dr. Johnson: Pho,— fiddle faddle,—do you suppose your Book is so much talked of, & not yourself? 1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow III. xv. 191 Oh, fiddle-faddle, my lord! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fiddle-faddlev. Brit. /ˈfɪdlˌfadl/, U.S. /ˈfɪd(ə)lˌfæd(ə)l/ Etymology: See fiddle-faddle n. intransitive. To be busy about petty trifles; to fuss, ‘mess about’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > be brisk or active > bustle > fuss or make a fuss nytelc1400 to make a matter1549 to keep a coil1568 squatter1593 fiddle-faddle1633 to play hell (with)1750 fuss1792 to play hell and Tommy1825 piggle1836 palavera1840 to make a time1844 to make a time1844 friggle1848 fussify1868 to make a production of (or out of)1941 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart i. iii. sig. C2^v Ye may as easily Out-run a Cloud, driuen by a Northerne blast, As fiddle faddle so. 1776 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 202 Had you been bred up only to fiddle faddle, you would have fiddle faddled all your life. 1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 226 She has..fiddle-faddled about the garden, picking off half-a-dozen dead roses. Derivatives fiddle-faddling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > brisk or active > bustling or fussing > about trifles busy-idle1611 nugiperous1647 fidgeting1672 niffy-naffy1765 fingering1799 fussing1826 fussy1831 fiddle-faddling1834 spoffish1836 spoffy1860 fustling1867 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss > bustling or fussing > about trifles fikery1823 fiddle-faddling1834 bettying1851 fussiness1851 fikiness1889 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. Pref. p. ix But lest I should chance to be considered here one of the tribe of that fiddle-fadling, dull old prosing pedant. 1850 A. H. Clough Corr. 19 June (1957) I. 284 Whatsoever your hand findeth to do, do it without fiddle faddling. 1861 M. E. Braddon Lady Lisle (1885) 36 I don't want him to be a fiddle-faddling girl. 1882 Society 14 Oct. 11/2 The mistaken notion..that detail is a substitute for spirit and fiddle-faddling for acting. fiddle-faddler n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss > one who bustles or fusses > one who fusses about trifles fidfad1754 niggler1781 busy idler1788 fiddle-faddler1846 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Fiddle-faddler, a foolish trifler. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.int.1577v.1633
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