fiddlesticks

American  

[fid-l-stiks] / ˈfɪd lˌstɪks /

interjection

1. (used to express impatience, dismissal, etc.)

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Etymology

Origin of fiddlesticks

First recorded in 1600–10; plural of fiddlestick or shortening of fiddlestick’s end (i.e., fiddlesticks end at a point, which is nothing)

Example Sentences

I had my suspicions of that bak—" "Baking powder fiddlesticks!

From Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

"A hundred and twenty fiddlesticks," the major said.

From The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Our foremost now are more prolix, And scrape with three-fell fiddlesticks, And, whether bound for griefs or smiles, Are slow to turn as crocodiles.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Oh, fiddlesticks, Dollyrinda!" said Dotty, "it's not charity.

From Two Little Women on a Holiday by Wells, Carolyn

Cut out of me one fiddle, And for each one, fiddlesticks two.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob