fiddle faddle

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Trifling discourse; nonsense.--Grose. Johnson. Also used adjectively and as a verb.

She said that her grandfather had a horse shot at Edgehill, and their uncle was at the siege of Buda; with abundance of fiddle faddle of the same nature.--Spectator.

She was a troublesome fiddle faddle old woman, and so ceremonious that there was no bearing of her.--Arbuthnot.

Ye may as easily

Outrun a cloud, driven by a northern blast,

As fiddle faddle so.--Ford, The Broken Heart, Act I. Scene 3.

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fiddle faddle
Trifling discourse, nonsense. A mere fiddle faddle fellow; a trifier. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Fiddle-faddle
·vi To talk nonsense. ...

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Faddle
·vi To <<Trifle>>; to <<Toy>>. II. Faddle ·vt To <<Fondle>>; to <<Dandle>>. ...

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·vi To play on a fiddle. II. Fiddle ·vt To play (a tune) on a fiddle. III. Fiddle ·noun A stringed...

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Foddle-faddle
·noun A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. ...

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Fiddle-shaped
·adj Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. ...

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The itch. ...

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The itch. See scotch fiddle. ...

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calf-skin fiddle
A drum. To smack calf's skin; to kiss the book in taking an oath. It is held by the St. Giles's casu...

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to play second fiddle
is to take an inferior part in any project or undertaking. A metaphor borrowed from a musical perfor...

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The Cat and Fiddle Cheap
A shop called the "Catt and Fiddell" in the parish of St. Peter in Chepe, 4 Ed. VI. (Lond. I. p.m. I...

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to hang up one's fiddle
To desist; to give up. When a man loses his temper and ain't cool, he might as well hang up his fid...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.