Word Meanings - FIDDLE-FADDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. Spectator.

SPECTATORSHIP
1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
NONSENSE
1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
TRIFLING
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland.
TRIFLUCTUATION
A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
SPECTATOR
One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak. Syn. -- Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.
SPECTATORIAL
Of or pertaining to a spectator. Addison.