Faddle

While time and experience make all of us better cyclists, if unchecked they also can conspire to transform us into insufferable pedants--serial retrogrouches and über-curmudgeons who automatically dismiss the strange and unfamiliar as "myth and lore," or "fiddle faddle," or "balderdash," or any other crotchety term of derision to which the cantankerous and ornery are inclined. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

As you can see, I don't fuss with a doughnut cutter and holes and all that fiddle-faddle. ❋ Gumbo Lily (2009)

Or are we just going to fiddle-faddle re-arranging the objects of our concern on that great addictive ship -- America? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was very pleased with my first attempt, bit of a fiddle-faddle, but tasted great. ❋ Unknown (2008)

'Fiddle, faddle, what's the good of ripping up old stories about nothing? when you're with genteel people, you must do as I do; never talk about business at all.' ❋ Unknown (2008)

All this wasted 2-step fiddle-faddle can come to a screeching halt. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But councils wouldn't let movies be shown that weren't BBFC censored... and so the system was imposed without the fiddle faddle of legislation. ❋ Guthrum (2008)

The piece was translated by Lord Fiddle-faddle, Tom Bulbul being the ❋ Unknown (2006)

It's just more ridiculous fiddle-faddle perpetuating the conservative Big Lies they've been pimping since forever. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I don't think ABC's premise is "ridculous fiddle faddle". ❋ Unknown (2006)

Well might the merit of your passion be doubted, you say, if, like Mr. Solmes — fiddle-faddle! — ❋ Unknown (2006)

Fiddle-faddle, foolish man — What a pother is here! ❋ Unknown (2006)

She drove over constantly from Roehampton and entertained her friend with faint fashionable fiddle-faddle and feeble Court slip-slop. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Instead it will strip many Virginians of rights they enjoy and set the stage for family court battles. link Fiddle-faddle. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Teutonic, Maltese, etc., are surely better subjects of conversation, than the weather, dress, or fiddle-faddle stories, that carry no information along with them. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And then, we watched Fox Game day and ate a whole box of fiddle-faddle together. ❋ Impetuousme (2004)

Moonshine, fiddle-faddle, but domestic happiness, full mutual accord, peace in the breast .... ❋ Unknown (2003)

I need not remind you of the fiddle-faddle sentimentality that goes down so well with all women; you spill a few drops of water on your stationery, for instance; those are the tears you shed while far away from her. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"Never was one for all that sentimental fiddle, faddle," she often said with satisfaction, and she took one of Royan's bags and led the way to the old mud-splattered Land Rover in the car park. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1995)