| 单词 | diddle- |
| 释义 | diddle- in comb.
[Connected with diddle v.1, v.3]
diddle-daddle, ‘stuff and nonsense’, ‘fiddle-faddle’: cf. tittle-tattle. diddle-dee, a name for the shrub Empetrum rubrum in the Falkland Islands. diddle-diddle, used to denote the sound of a fiddle, or the action of playing it. diddledum (in 6 -dome), used contemptuously for, or in reference to, something trifling.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 741 What blunderar is yonder, that playth didil diddil He fyndith fals mesuris out of his fonde fiddill. 1599Breton Dreame Strange Effects 17 When thou findest a foole for thy diet, feede him with a Dish of Diddledomes, for I have done with thee. c1670(title of song), ‘Diddle-diddle, or the kind country lovers.’ 1778F. Burney Diary Sept., Mrs. Thrale. Come, let us have done now with all this diddle-daddle. 1797Canning, etc. in Anti-Jacobin No. 5. 19 Reason, philosophy, ‘fiddledum diddledum’. 18..Nursery Rime, Hey! diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle. 1847Sir J. C. Ross Voy. S. Seas II. 249 A roaring fire of ‘diddle-dee’ ready to cook our supper. 1893Times 27 May 14/1 The open country [Falkland Islands] is clothed with short scrub called diddle-dee (Empetrum rubrum). |
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