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Meanings of fiddle-faddle in English

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Trivial nonsense.

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Examples for "piffle"
Examples for "piffle"
1
I am much obliged for your help, but you are talking piffle.
The Pawns Count
2
Listen: Instead of all this impossible piffle, let's start a real story.
Jean of the Lazy A
3
One hoarse raucous piffle and three sharp decisive puffs for your arguments!
One Third Off
4
He wasted money, energy and wrote piffle, was his damning verdict.
The Guardian
5
The leader of the boys said: Aw, piffle, cut it out.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
1
His claim that war is never necessary is ill-informed, simplistic, naïve balderdash.
The Irish Times
2
There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of gabble and balderdash.
In the Year of Jubilee
3
Of course, any idea of the kind was purely and simply balderdash.
The Beetle: A Mystery
4
This perverse balderdash was getting on the nerves of the deputation.
South Wind
5
The first two lines are priggish, and the last three mere poetic balderdash.
The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
Usage of fiddle-faddle in English
1
I will have no fiddle-faddle in such a matter, he said courageously.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
2
No more they make a fiddle-faddle About a Hessian horse or saddle.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
3
Perhaps I ought not to; but this isn't a case to fiddle-faddle over.
The Ragged Edge
4
And so here we are on the verge of a fiddle-faddle.
The Guardian
5
Lively as a cricket; none of your stuck-up, fiddle-faddle notions.
Tempest and Sunshine
6
It did seem a waste of trouble, a fiddle-faddle plan of life, he feared.
The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
7
To think of such foolish fiddle-faddle stopping a man of his acumen and strength!
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 3
8
For all the stir and fiddle-faddle, the fare was plain and, I must say, insufficient.
Caleb's crossing
9
It's his voice but the words are fiddle-faddle.
Frankenstein: Lost Souls - A Novel
10
Think of wasting time in such fiddle-faddle proceedings!
The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
11
She drove over constantly from Roehampton and entertained her friend with faint fashionable fiddle-faddle and feeble Court slip-slop.
Vanity Fair
12
Do you hear it saying it could have excused her for that fiddle-faddle with a younger- ayounglover?
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2
13
They said she was a troublesome fiddle-faddle old woman, and so ceremonious that there was no bearing of her.
The History of John Bull
14
I don't expect any fiddle-faddle.
Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
15
She has some fiddle-faddle in her head, as maids will, but she will have her way with us, I suppose.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
16
In this way they waste the whole year with tomfoolery and fiddle-faddle, only in order to avoid doing the king's service.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
Translations for fiddle-faddle
Portuguese
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