Fiddle Faddle means nonsense, it is often used as an interjection.
Fiddle Faddle - musical composition - was created in 1947.
Fiddle Faddle - 1960 was released on: USA: 26 February 1960
The cast of Fiddle Faddle - 1960 includes: Jack Mercer as Professor Schmaltz
In Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning, Justice Tappercoom says "The whole thing's a lot of amphigourious, stultiloquential fiddle-faddle."
During the 16th. century, the advent of the word 'violin' for the instrument colloquially known as 'fiddle' drove the word 'fiddle' into common usage. First recorded use of the alliterative nonce word, as nonsense itself, 'fiddle faddle' was in 1577
Idiocyyyyyyy ------------------------------------------------- Gobbledygook, fiddle-faddle, Blatherskite.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant trifling discourse or nonsense. Cowboys liked to use rhyming phrases.
Orville Redenbacher Pop Secret Fiddle Faddle Cracker Jack Jiffy Pop Crunch 'n Munch
Sorry; my favorite online etymological dictionary has no such listing. However, "fiddle" does carry a contemptuous sense, "fiddle-faddle" means "trifles" or "busy oneself with trifles; talk nonsense", and "fiddle-dee-dee" is a contemptuous nonsense word.
Fiddlesticks is an interjection meaning something similar to "Oh, shoot!" A fiddlestick can also be the bow used to play a fiddle.
It's a very round-about way to say puzzling, foolish, and trivial matters. I'm assuming that you're reading the Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry. Fry when he has the judge says this, is basically making fun of all lawyers as they use huge words that no one on earth understands.
The bowed string instrument first appeared in India circa 3000 BC, and is described in Hindu myth as Ravanahatha.[2] From India, the technology traveled out both to China, and through Central Asia to Europe.