fiddle-faddle
Meaningless trifling talk
Fiddle-faddle is trivial nonsense or fussy attention to unimportant matters.
As an exclamation, it dismisses something as unworthy of serious consideration: Oh, fiddle-faddle—that's not how it happened at all.
The word has an old-fashioned, slightly comical quality.
To fiddle-faddle is to waste time on trifles.
Senseless talk or writing
- poppycockFoolish or meaningless talk
- hogwashFoolish or untrue talk
- twaddleTrivial, foolish talk
- malarkeyInsincere foolish talk
claptrap · drivel · blather · bunkum · tommyrot · codswallop · piffle · hokum
Playfully fanciful or erratic
- sillyFrivolous or absurd
- nonsensicalWithout coherent meaning
- lightheartedCheerful and without worry
- jestingPlayful, unserious speech
frolicsome · zany · fanciful · carefree · antic · tomfoolery · shenanigans · horseplay
Lacking significance or weight
- pettyOf little importance
- insignificantLacking importance or consequence
- minorScale with lowered third
- negligibleToo small to consider
inconsequential · unimportant · frivolous · piddling · footling · picayune · nugatory · paltry
Prolonged indecisive hesitation
- putteringUnhurried aimless activity
- potteringAimless light activity
- dawdlingLeisurely time-wasting
- tinkeringCasual, unskilled adjusting
frittering · procrastinating · loafing · dallying · lollygagging · shilly-shallying · futz · piddle
balderdash
Senseless talk or writing
malarkey · claptrap · drivel · blather · bunkum · tommyrot · codswallop · piffle · hokum · baloney
whimsical
Playfully fanciful or erratic
- sillyFrivolous or absurd
- nonsensicalWithout coherent meaning
- lightheartedCheerful and without worry
jesting · frolicsome · zany · fanciful · carefree · antic · tomfoolery · shenanigans · horseplay · japery
trivial
Lacking significance or weight
- pettyOf little importance
- insignificantLacking importance or consequence
- minorScale with lowered third
negligible · inconsequential · unimportant · frivolous · piddling · footling · picayune · nugatory · paltry · trifles
dithering
Prolonged indecisive hesitation
tinkering · frittering · procrastinating · loafing · dallying · lollygagging · shilly-shallying · futz · piddle · footle
popcorn
Heated grain that puffs
- candy-coatedEncased in hardened sweetness
- sweetTasting of sugar
- crunchyBreaking with sound
- Reduplicativesbye-bye, mama, papa, haha, yo-yo
- Whimsy Wordsgobbledygook, gibberish, mumbo jumbo, hogwash, balderdash
- idlingidle, idled, loaf, loafed, laze
- nonsensenonsense, absurd, gibberish, gobbledegook, gobbledygook
fiddle-faddlesubstance
Physical material with mass
gravity · seriousness · import · significance · weightiness
fiddle-faddlesense
Perception or judgment
wisdom · rationality · reason · reasonableness · sensibleness
fiddle, fiddling, fiddles, fiddled, fiddler, flimflam, fiddlesticks, fiddlestick