fiddle-faddle

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There was an owl lived in an oak, Wisky, wasky, weedle; And every word he ever spoke Was fiddle, faddle, feedle.

From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various

There was an owl lived in an oak, Wisky, wasky, weedle; And every word he ever spoke, Was fiddle, faddle, feedle.

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth

Blush ye! ye with your buckles, and your pointed toes and your fiddle faddle.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various