- fiddle-faddle[fiddle-faddle 词源字典]
- 1570s, "trifles" (n.); 1630s "busy oneself with trifles; talk nonsense" (v.), apparently a reduplication of obsolete faddle "to trifle," or of fiddle in its contemptuous sense.[fiddle-faddle etymology, fiddle-faddle origin, 英语词源]