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fingle-fangle
[reduplication of fangle. Cf. fiddle-faddle.]
A trifle; something whimsical or fantastic. Also attrib.
a1652Brome Covent Garden i. 13 This comes of your new fingle-fangle fashion. 1678Butler Hud. iii. iii. 221 To wrangle, About the slightest fingle fangle. 1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 61. 3/1 A Woman..I Love; A kind of Female Fingle, Fangle. 1900Daily News 26 Nov. 4/1 A lot of fingle-fangle, like piano-playing. 1963Brewer's Dict. Phr. & Fable 359/2 Fingle-fangle..is not heard nowadays, except as an archaism.
Hence ˈfingle-fangled ppl. a.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋11 The upstart fingle-fangl'd Paracelsian. |