fiddlesticks

[fid-l-stiks]

interjection

(used to express impatience, dismissal, etc.)

fiddlestick

[fid-l-stik]

noun

anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.

Origin of fiddlestick

First recorded in 1400–50, fiddlestick is from the late Middle English word fidillstyk. See fiddle, stick¹

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Historical Examples of fiddlesticks

Simply to say you're going to make your fortune is all fiddlesticks and folly.
Our Home in the Silver West
Gordon Stables
"Fiddlesticks, Alec," was his polite remark to his brother when he asked him not to get up.
In Quest of Gold
Alfred St. Johnston
"Thought-transference, Fiddlesticks," we may hear him cry, in imagination.
Dynamic Thought
William Walker Atkinson
When we urged the obvious facts he would say: "Fiddlesticks!"
Herland
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
You're worrying your brain into fiddlesticks—fiddlestrings I mean, of course.
The Return of the Prodigal
May Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for fiddlesticks

fiddlestick

noun

informal a violin bow

any meaningless or inconsequential thing; trifle

fiddlesticks! an expression of annoyance or disagreement

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Word Origin and History for fiddlesticks

fiddlestick

usually fiddlesticks; 15c., originally "the bow of a fiddle," from fiddle (n.) and stick (n.). Meaning "nonsense" is from 1620s.