Fiddle-faddle
Fiddle-faddle noun - Language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense.
Usage example: a grandmother who routinely pooh-poohed the advice of the so-called experts in child care as so much fiddle-faddle
Humbug and fiddle-faddle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Humbug" instead a noun phrase "Fiddle-faddle".
Humbug
Humbug noun - Language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense.
Usage example: those UFO stories are a lot of humbug
Fiddle-faddle and humbug are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fiddle-faddle" instead a noun "Humbug".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- drool and fiddle-faddle
- drool and humbug
- trash and fiddle-faddle
- trash and humbug
- bunk and fiddle-faddle
- bunk and humbug
- rubbish and fiddle-faddle
- rubbish and humbug
- nonsense and fiddle-faddle
- nonsense and humbug
- balderdash and fiddle-faddle
- balderdash and humbug
- twaddle and fiddle-faddle
- twaddle and humbug
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