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fiddle-faddle
[fiddle-faddle 词源字典]
1570s, "trifles" (n.); 1630s "busy oneself with trifles; talk nonsense" (v.), apparently a reduplication of obsolete
faddle
"to trifle," or of
fiddle
in its contemptuous sense.
[fiddle-faddle etymology, fiddle-faddle origin, 英语词源]