Fiddle-faddle

Definition: Fiddle-faddle

Fiddle-faddle

Noun

1. Trivial nonsense.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Fiddle-faddle \Fid"dle-fad`dle\, intransitive verb. To talk nonsense. [Colloq.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fiddle-faddle

Inactivity

Idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time; spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.

Dilatory, laggard; lagging; Verb: slow; rusty, flagging; lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering; Verb:shilly-shally; (irresolute).

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Unmeaningness

Trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.

Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility).

Crosswords: Fiddle-faddle

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Albanian

fare pa rëndësi (fiddling), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), bisedë boshe. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلام فارغ (balderdash, bosh, bunk, drivel, empty talk, idle talk, nonsense, poppycock, prattle, twaddle), ‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суетене (ado, coil, fidget, fuss, stir), тинтири-минтири (fiddlesticks), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), празни работи (small beer), дрън-дрън (all my eye, flim-flam, jiggery pokery, poppycock, sez-you, tosh). (various references)

French

quelle blague. (various references)

German

quatsch (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blah, bull, bunk, bunkum, flubdub, garbage, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, jabberwocky, malarkey, nonsense, poppycock, rubbish, shucks, trash, twaddle). (various references)

Hebrew 

שטות (absurdity, foolishness, insanity, madness, nonsense, piffle, tomfoolery), קשקשן (chatterbox, prattler, scribbler). (various references)

Hungarian

locsogás (blatter, driveling, drivelling, gabble, garrulity, gossiping, jangle, lap, piffle, prattle, tittle tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, yack, yakkety-yak), jelentéktelen (baubling, dinkey, dinky, exiguous, footling, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, jerkwater, light, minor, minor details, negligible, niggling, nugatory, null, obscure, of no great importance, of no moment, paltry, petty, piddling, scrubby, slight, small time, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, unimportant, venial). (various references)

Pig Latin

iddle-faddlefay.(various references)

Portuguese

frivolidades, rabujar, rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss-cross, crusty, currish, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, frumpish, grouty, gruff, harsh, moody, morose, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy, unkind, unpleasant), patetices, insignificante (bald, frivolous, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, little, mean, negligible, one-horse, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pitiable, pony, poor, potty, puny, scrubby, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, wispy), desperdiçar o tempo, conversa fiada (chatter, froth, idle talk, small talk), bagatelas (bagatelles, nonsense, rubbish), afobado (flustered, nervous). (various references)

Romanian

fleacuri (babble, bosh, bunk, cheese, fiddlededee, flim-flam, froth, gammon, humbug, odd trifles, skittles, tosh, tripe, whatnot), vorbe de clacã (moonshine), tãia frunza la câini, prostii (apple-sauce, balderdash, bosh, drivel, eyewash, fiddlesticks, fudge, gammon, moonshine, mush, nonsense, poppy-cock, rats, rubbish, skittles, stuff and nonsense, tosh, trash, tripe), bleotocãri (chatter, gabble, wish-wash). (various references)

Russian 

пустячный (baubling, fiddling, nugatory, piddling, trifling), пустяки (duck soup, hill of beans, playgame, small potatoes, song and dance, trivia). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koješta (fiddledeedee, pshaw, tommy rot, tommyrot). (various references)

Swedish

struntprat (all my eye, all my eyes, apple sauce, baloney, eyewash, falderal, fiddlededee, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, humbug, jargon, nonsense, poppycock, stuff, tosh, trumpery). (various references)

Thai

ความไร้สาระ (bollocks). (various references)

Turkish

zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), vakit harcamak, tembellik etmek (be lazy, drone, fribble, have a laze, laze, laze around, lounge, lounge about, slack, slack off, slacken, slug), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), saçma söz, ayrıntılarla ilgilenmek (fiddle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vớ vẩn, vô nghĩa lý, tầm thường (characterless, fiddling, inconsequential, jerkwater, picayune, platitudinarian, platitudinous, poor, prosy, soulless, straw, trivial, unideal, uninsprired), tầm ph� o, lặt vặt (fiddling, odd, peddling, petty, sundry), chuyện vớ vẩn người vô công r�"i nghề, chuyện vô nghĩa lý (poppycock), chuyện tầm thường (commonplace, nothing), chuyện tầm ph� o (fudge, gas, gossipry, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle), chuyện lặt vặt (nothing, small beer), chuyện ba láp (prate, tattle), ba láp. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: defiladed.

-4 letters: defilade.

-5 letters: daddled, dallied, defiled, dialled, diddled, felafel, fiddled, fielded, flailed.