Usually means: Nonsense, trivial talk or ideas.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word fiddle-faddle:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. fiddle-faddle: Merriam-Webster
  2. fiddle-faddle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fiddle-faddle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fiddle-faddle, fiddle-faddle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fiddle-faddle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fiddle-Faddle, fiddle-faddle: Wordnik
  7. fiddle-faddle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fiddle-faddle: Wiktionary
  9. fiddle-faddle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fiddle-faddle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Fiddle-faddle, fiddle-faddle: Dictionary.com
  12. Fiddle-faddle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. fiddle-faddle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. fiddle-faddle: Rhymezone
  15. Fiddle-faddle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. fiddle-faddle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Fiddle-faddle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. fiddle-faddle: FreeDictionary.org
  19. fiddle-faddle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fiddle-faddle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. fiddle-faddle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fiddle-faddle: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fiddle-faddle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fiddle-faddle)

▸ noun:  nonsense
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To trifle; to dally.
▸ adjective:  (intransitive) Trifling; dallying; inclined to fuss about trifles.

Similar:
balderdash, piffle, fadoodle, fudge, fiddle, slipslop, twaddling, motherfuckery, twaddledom, stuff and nonsense, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, earnestness, gravity, solemnity

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Similar:
balderdash, piffle, fadoodle, fudge, fiddle, slipslop, twaddling, motherfuckery, twaddledom, stuff and nonsense, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, earnestness, gravity, solemnity



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