FIDDLE-FADDLE Synonyms
There are 5 hypernyms of the word fiddle-faddle. (close relations)
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balderdash | nounn | |||||||
noun • trivial nonsense | ||||||||
piffle | nounn | |||||||
noun • trivial nonsense verb • speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly • act in a trivial or ineffective way | ||||||||
baloney | nounn | |||||||
noun • pretentious or silly talk or writing | ||||||||
blarney | nounn | |||||||
noun • flattery designed to gain favor verb • influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | ||||||||
blather | verbv | |||||||
noun • foolish gibberish verb • to talk foolishly | ||||||||
bosh | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • pretentious or silly talk or writing | ||||||||
claptrap | nounn | |||||||
noun • pompous or pretentious talk or writing | ||||||||
codswallop | nounn | |||||||
noun • nonsensical talk or writing | ||||||||
gibberish | nounn | |||||||
noun • unintelligible talking | ||||||||
hogwash | nounn | |||||||
noun • unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | ||||||||
hooey | nounn | |||||||
noun • senseless talk | ||||||||
humbug | nounn | |||||||
noun • pretentious or silly talk or writing • communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive • something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage verb • trick or deceive | ||||||||
malarkey | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||||
noun • empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | ||||||||
nonsense | nounn | |||||||
noun • a message that seems to convey no meaning • ornamental objects of no great value adjective satellite • having no intelligible meaning | ||||||||
poppycock | nounn | |||||||
noun • senseless talk | ||||||||
tomfoolery | nounn | |||||||
noun • foolish or senseless behavior | ||||||||
trifling | adjectiveadj | |||||||
noun • the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working adjective satellite • not worth considering | ||||||||
trivial | adjectiveadj | |||||||
adjective satellite • (informal) small and of little importance • of little substance or significance • concerned with trivialities | ||||||||
twaddle | nounn | |||||||
noun • pretentious or silly talk or writing verb • speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | ||||||||
flapdoodle | nounn | |||||||
noun • Nonsense • Thingamabob. • A speaker or writer of nonsense. verb • To con; to deceive with nonsense. |