fiddlestick
Americannoun
noun
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informal a violin bow
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any meaningless or inconsequential thing; trifle
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an expression of annoyance or disagreement
Etymology
Origin of fiddlestick
First recorded in 1400–50, fiddlestick is from the late Middle English word fidillstyk. See fiddle, stick 1
Vocabulary lists containing fiddlestick
Example Sentences
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Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the Goldsmith; "you forget that Lehsen doesn't care a fiddlestick about money.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
"A viper—a fiddlestick," said Miss Sharp to the old lady, almost fainting with astonishment.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Like all things of real value, it is very simple; it is based on the same principle as that of the locusts; there is the toothed fiddlestick and the vibrating tympanum.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
"Swiss fiddlestick," retorted Schillie, "my dear girls, if you think I shall break my back and spoil my hands ornamenting a house for you, you will find yourselves wonderfully deceived."
From Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Julia de Winton
An' who d'ye think do work the fiddlestick?
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
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