| 单词 | fiddle-faddle |
| 释义 | fiddle-faddle (once / 74336 pages) n Fiddle-faddle is silly, insignificant nonsense. Fiddle-faddle doesn't amount to much. Fiddle-faddle usually refers to nonsense that is particularly insubstantial: trivial stuff that means little. If you're trying to discuss something serious, and someone makes an irrelevant point, you could say "That's fiddle-faddle!" This is a reduplicative word — like hocus pocus and higgledy-piggledy — which means most of the word repeats. Lots of reduplicative words mean nonsense, such as mumbo-jumbo and jibber-jabber. WORD FAMILYfiddle-faddle USAGE EXAMPLESThe music shifts between passages of slippery, out-of-focus tonal harmonies and episodes of rustic dance, like tart, fractured fiddle-faddle. New York Times(Mar 08, 2015) “O.,” he whispered, “how would you fancy the Something Fiddle-Faddle Histories of Tacitus?” M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian No...(2006) Another is a restless outburst of modernistic fiddle-faddle. New York Times(Apr 30, 2014) n trivial nonsense Syn|Hyper balderdash, piffle bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality a message that seems to convey no meaning |
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