Meaning & use
fiddle-faddle
Nonsense or trivial, silly talk that is not worth taking seriously.
See it in a sentence
Stop with the fiddle-faddle and tell me what actually happened at the meeting.
The report was full of fiddle-faddle instead of the real numbers we needed.
A note on using this word
Fiddle-faddle is old-fashioned and playful, mostly used humorously today rather than in serious writing.
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Another way to use it
2. interjection
An exclamation expressing that something is foolish or not to be taken seriously.
Fiddle-faddle! There's no reason to worry about such a small mistake.
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