The Collaborative International Dictionary
fiddle-faddle
fiddle-faddle \fid"dle-fad`dle\, n.
A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. [Colloq.]
--Spectator.
fiddle-faddle
fiddle-faddle \fid"dle-fad`dle\, v. i.
To talk nonsense. [Colloq.]
--Ford.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fiddle-faddle
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.
Wiktionary
fiddle-faddle
n. nonsense
WordNet
fiddle-faddle
n. trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, piffle]