fal-laln.adj.

Brit.

/falˈlal/,

/fə(l)ˈlal/, U.S.

/ˌfæ(l)ˈlæl/,

/fəˈlæl/

Forms: 1700s fal-al (Scottish), 1700s fall lall, 1700s–1800s fal-lall, 1700s–1800s fallal, 1700s– fal-lal, 1800s fal lal; English regional 1800s fallol (Cheshire), 1800s fol-lol (Northamptonshire), 1800s vallal (Berkshire).

Origin: Perhaps formed within English, by conversion; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item, or perhaps modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymon: fal lal int.

Etymology: A reduplicative formation (with variation of the initial consonant) of uncertain origin. Perhaps < fal lal int. (although that is first attested slightly later; compare fa-la n.¹ a and fa-la n.¹ b, and also folderol n.), perhaps influenced by fal- in either French falbala a pleated strip of fabric used as ornament, frill (1692; see falbala n.) or classical Latin phalerae (in post-classical Latin also falerae) trappings, harness, ornaments (see phalera n.).For reduplicative formations with sense ‘trifle, ornament’ see also knick-knack n., gewgaw n.

A. n.

a. A piece of frippery or finery; a showy article of dress or personal adornment. Chiefly in plural. Cf. folderol n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > other

jace1399

loopa1475

shakers1506

aglet1530

nerve1531

pipe1533

targeting1563

pinion1583

pinioning1597

tzitzit1618

loop-lace1632

button1671

tip1681

fal-lal1703

falbala1705

furbelow1706

jewelling1718

weeper1724

pompom1748

chiffons1765

foliage-trimming1818

mancheron1822

piping1825

manchette1835

patte1835

streamer1838

waterfall1841

paillette1843

brandenburgs1873

motif1882

patch1884

smocking1888

jockey1896

strapping1898

steel1899

sparklet1902

slotting1923

1703 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote III. v. 49 Look how she goes in her Farthingale and her rich Trimmings and Fallals, no less than a whole Tradesman's Shop about her mangy back.

1718 S. Centlivre Bold Stroke for Wife ii. ii. 15 And thou do'st really think those Fallals becometh thee?

1775 T. Sheridan Lect. Art of Reading I. ii. 88 One of their painted Courtezans, adorned with fripperies and fallals.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 250 It was an idle fancy..to dress the honest auld man in thae expensive fal-lalls that he ne'er wore in his life.

1861 G. A. Sala Dutch Pict. viii. 121 New bonnets..and similar feminine fallals.

1897 Times 4 Dec. 12/3 The druggist..has to go outside his proper sphere, selling tobacco, hair-brushes, and any ‘fal-lals’ that he can find room for.

1921 J. A. Roy Pole & Czech in Silesia 47 She can act the princess, decked in her cheap finery.., in her fallals and be-ribboned shawl.

1992 Sunday Times (Nexis) 31 May [A] young man on the make in the media, with a fat Filofax and a fixation for designer fallals.

b. In extended use: a frivolous or unnecessary addition or embellishment.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial

gewgaw?c1225

frivolc1450

whim-whama1529

jim-jamc1540

trickc1550

flamfew1574

ribaldry1594

bubble1598

kickshawa1616

fairy money1616

foolation1628

fingle-fanglea1652

trangama1658

tinsel1660

gingerbread1664

finnimbrun1676

gimcrack1676

knacka1677

tawdrum1680

knick-knack1682

trantlum1768

knick-knacket1793

folderol1820

jigamaree1824

novelty1840

fool's gold1870

flapdoodle1877

fal-lal1902

1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns iii. 47 Thou mun sign this list, and all these transfers and fal-lals, and then thou mun go to th' Bank, and tell Mester Lovatt I've sent thee.

1932 Times 20 Sept. 8/2 Even without its distinctively Shavian fal-lals, which happen to be few and good, it would stand by its power of story-telling and the continuously developed interest of its character-drawing.

1957 Technology Mar. 3/4 Some people may find it rather odd, in a journal professedly devoted to training and education for industry, to come across film reviews, music notices and such fal-lals.

2. Chiefly English regional. Affectation or pretentiousness in manner; (more generally) fuss, rigmarole.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun]

affectation1548

affection1570

phantastry1656

stilt1735

fal-lal1775

coxcombality1785

meemaw1790

posture-making1797

attitudinarianism1803

attitudinizing1812

piminy1819

stiltishness1824

niminy-piminyism1840

gyvera1866

notion1866

attitudinization1871

effectism1871

jam1882

chichi1908

poncing1969

pseudery1972

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss

to-doc1330

adoc1380

great (also much) cry and little woolc1460

feery-fary1535

fray1568

stirc1595

do1598

coil1599

hurl1603

ruffle1609

clutterment1611

buzz1628

bustle1637

paddle1642

racket1644

clutter1652

tracas1656

tracasserie1656

circumference1667

flutter1667

hurly-burly1678

fuss1701

fissle1719

fraise1725

hurry-scurry1753

fix-fax1768

fal-lal1775

widdle1789

touse1792

fuffle1801

going-on1817

hurry and scurry1823

sputter1823

tew1825

Bob's-a-dying1829

fidge1832

tamasha1842

mulling1845

mussing1846

fettling1847

fooster1847

trade1854

scrimmage1855

carry-on1861

fuss-and-feathers1866

on-carry1870

make-a-do1880

miration1883

razzle-dazzle1885

song and dance1885

to get a rustle on1891

tea-party1903

stirabout1905

whoop-de-do1910

chichi1928

production1941

go-go1966

1775 Gen. Election: Lett. between Friends I. xiv. 160 This turn of thinking so unlike the romance of lovers, and the fal-lal of common attachments, is..the only whimsicality I can be charged with.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. ‘I canna believe a word 'e says 'e's so much fallal about 'im.’

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 182 Too much fallol about him to pleease me.

1989 Sunday Times (Nexis) 25 June The ability to play triviality broadscreen, and the substitution of administrative fallal for life.

2009 Times (Nexis) 16 May (Weekend section) 4 I couldn't be bothered, I couldn't go through all that fallal of getting to know somebody well enough to live with him.

B. adj.

Affected, finicky, foppish; fond of frippery or finery; showy and insubstantial; fancy. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting refinement

young-ladyfied1616

genteel1631

genteea1680

fal-lal1747

shabby-genteel1754

fine-ladylike1755

fine-ladyish1777

ladyish1830

silver-fork1831

haw-haw1841

lardy-dardy1861

la-di-dac1883

refained1925

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [adjective]

chisa700

estfula1000

esquaymous1303

squeamousc1325

overnicec1350

curiousc1380

dangerousc1386

delicatea1393

preciousc1395

nicec1400

skigc1400

over-delicatea1425

daintethc1430

ticklec1456

quaint1483

dauncha1500

pickinga1500

feat?1529

elegant?1533

queasy1545

fine1546

fine-fingered1549

fastidious?1555

fine-mouthed1559

chary1567

weamish1571

saucy1573

dainty1576

superfine1576

niced1577

overcurious1579

nicing1581

fineish1582

prick-me-dainty1583

daint1590

finical1592

tiptoe-nice1593

nice1594

nicking1598

choice1601

squeamish1608

marchpane1609

hypercritical1611

particular1616

finicking1661

overcritical1667

just so1696

penurious1703

fal-lal1747

ogertful1754

nackety1756

quiddling1789

pernickety1808

pershittie1808

taffety1814

hypercritic1820

faddy1824

finicky1825

meticulous1827

daintified1834

squeamy1838

picksome1855

choosey1862

picky1867

hyperaesthetic1879

persnickety1885

précieux1891

perskeet1897

tasty1905

Nice Nelly1922

perfectionist1942

snicketya1960

perfectionistic1968

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial > affected or foppish

skipjack1598

skipjackly1674

fal-lal1747

macaronian1792

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xlii. 291 Humouring his old fal-lal taste.

1768 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 14 I was so sick of the ceremony & fuss of these fall lall people!

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 309 Your cockups and your fal-lal duds.

1847 A. S. Mayhew & H. Mayhew Greatest Plague of Life vii. 87 Lo and behold! my neat, unpretending chrysalis had changed into a flaunting fal-lal butterfly.

1869 A. C. Gibson Folk-speech Cumberland 57 T' lasses irn't hoaf sa smart, For o' the'r fallal hats an' veils.

1898 Monthly Packet Feb. 175 This, mamma, is your old fal-lal taste.

1939 Table Talk (Melbourne) 26 Jan. 32/3 He'd have ordered some fal-lal thing that would be smashed in two days.

Phrases

† upon the fal-lal: bordering on the affected or foppish. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)] > slightly

upon the fal-lal1753

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xvi. 121 The lady is a little upon the fallal, a little aunt Nellish.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fal-lalv.

Brit.

/falˈlal/,

/fə(l)ˈlal/, U.S.

/ˌfæ(l)ˈlæl/,

/fəˈlæl/

Inflections: Present participle fal-lalling, fal-laling; past tense and past participle fal-lalled, fal-laled;

Forms: see fal-lal n. and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: fal-lal n.

Etymology: < fal-lal n.

colloquial. Now rare.

1. intransitive. To trifle, dally; to waste time in trifling activity. Also (occasionally) transitive: to fuss over, make a fuss of; to bestow trifles upon.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)]

to make it goodlyc1325

bride?1533

affect1600

mimp1673

to give oneself airs1701

fal-lal1818

pose1840

posturize1850

attitudinize1864

primp1875

posture1877

lardy-dardy1887

to put (or pile) on lugs1889

la-di-da1901

profile1970

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity

trifle?a1400

loiterc1400

tiffc1440

tifflec1440

to pick a salad1520

to play the wanton1529

fiddle1530

dauntc1540

piddle1545

dally?1548

pittlea1568

pingle1574

puddle1591

to thrum caps1594

maginate1623

meecha1625

pudder1624

dabble1631

fanfreluche1653

dawdlea1656

taigle17..

niff-naff1728

tiddle1747

peddle1755

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quiddle1789

muddle1791

browse1803

niddle1808

poke1811

fal-lal1818

potter1824

footer1825

putter1827

shaffle1828

to fool about1838

mike1838

piffle1847

mess1853

to muck about1856

tinker1856

bohemianize1857

to fool around1860

frivol1866

june1869

muss1876

to muddle about (also around)1877

slummock1877

dicker1888

moodle1893

to fart about1899

to fart about (or around)1899

plouter1899

futz1907

monkey1916

to arse around1919

to play around1929

to fuck around1931

tool1932

frig1933

boondoggle1935

to muck around1935

to screw around1935

to bugger about1937

to bugger around1939

to piss about1943

to dick around1948

to jerk around1953

fart-arse1954

to fanny around1969

slop1973

dork1982

to twat around (or about)1992

to dick about1996

1818 ‘Ex’ Freedom of Eng. 322 These great folks..are so fal-lalled, and flattered, and fawned upon, that they think they may do anything.

1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. iv. 72 She can't go on fal-lalling with you, and then nothing to come of it.

1860 Leisure Hour 11 Oct. 655/1 I reckon they've other fish to fry than fallalling over them strings [i.e. playing the harp].

1909 S. R. Crockett in Fortn. Rev. 1 May 990 My good master hath not time to understand, being too busy with his music and fal-lalling after women folk.

1953 Gippsland (Victoria) Times 17 Aug. 2/7 Ezra does not think that's right either—Mary ‘fal-lalling’ with the local squire's son.

†2. transitive (in passive). To be (excessively) decked out with finery. Also with about. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament > trim or deck out

perfurnish1375

enflourish?a1400

varnish14..

perform1420

to pick outc1429

polish?1440

trimc1516

to set out1523

trick?1532

face1542

trick1545

prank1546

tricka1555

bawdefy1562

tickle1567

prink1573

finify1586

deck1587

decore1603

betrima1616

fangle1615

beprank1648

prim1688

to garnish outa1704

decorate1782

to do off1794

dizen1807

tricolatea1825

fal-lal1845

1845 H. Jennings My Marine Memorandum Bk. III. 22 There sat Kate, dressed up like a lady, with a thingumbob on her head, fringed and fallaled about with red and blue streamer ends.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 219 Fallals, flaunting finery. It is also used participially to a female dressed out beyond her station. ‘See how she's fallal'd out.’

Derivatives

fal-ˈlalling n.

ΚΠ

1846 Satirist 29 Mar. 103/2 The actor goes through the heavy or serious business, while the treasury clerk undertakes only the light duties of amusing and fal-lalling.

1990 E. O'Brien Lantern Slides 12 They were the only people who gardened, others had not the time or the will for such fal-lalling.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fal-lal
释义	fal-laln.adj. Brit. /falˈlal/, /fə(l)ˈlal/, U.S. /ˌfæ(l)ˈlæl/, /fəˈlæl/ Forms: 1700s fal-al (Scottish), 1700s fall lall, 1700s–1800s fal-lall, 1700s–1800s fallal, 1700s– fal-lal, 1800s fal lal; English regional 1800s fallol (Cheshire), 1800s fol-lol (Northamptonshire), 1800s vallal (Berkshire). Origin: Perhaps formed within English, by conversion; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item, or perhaps modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymon: fal lal int. Etymology: A reduplicative formation (with variation of the initial consonant) of uncertain origin. Perhaps < fal lal int. (although that is first attested slightly later; compare fa-la n.¹ a and fa-la n.¹ b, and also folderol n.), perhaps influenced by fal- in either French falbala a pleated strip of fabric used as ornament, frill (1692; see falbala n.) or classical Latin phalerae (in post-classical Latin also falerae) trappings, harness, ornaments (see phalera n.).For reduplicative formations with sense ‘trifle, ornament’ see also knick-knack n., gewgaw n. A. n. 1. a. A piece of frippery or finery; a showy article of dress or personal adornment. Chiefly in plural. Cf. folderol n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > other jace1399 loopa1475 shakers1506 aglet1530 nerve1531 pipe1533 targeting1563 pinion1583 pinioning1597 tzitzit1618 loop-lace1632 button1671 tip1681 fal-lal1703 falbala1705 furbelow1706 jewelling1718 weeper1724 pompom1748 chiffons1765 foliage-trimming1818 mancheron1822 piping1825 manchette1835 patte1835 streamer1838 waterfall1841 paillette1843 brandenburgs1873 motif1882 patch1884 smocking1888 jockey1896 strapping1898 steel1899 sparklet1902 slotting1923 1703 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote III. v. 49 Look how she goes in her Farthingale and her rich Trimmings and Fallals, no less than a whole Tradesman's Shop about her mangy back. 1718 S. Centlivre Bold Stroke for Wife ii. ii. 15 And thou do'st really think those Fallals becometh thee? 1775 T. Sheridan Lect. Art of Reading I. ii. 88 One of their painted Courtezans, adorned with fripperies and fallals. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 250 It was an idle fancy..to dress the honest auld man in thae expensive fal-lalls that he ne'er wore in his life. 1861 G. A. Sala Dutch Pict. viii. 121 New bonnets..and similar feminine fallals. 1897 Times 4 Dec. 12/3 The druggist..has to go outside his proper sphere, selling tobacco, hair-brushes, and any ‘fal-lals’ that he can find room for. 1921 J. A. Roy Pole & Czech in Silesia 47 She can act the princess, decked in her cheap finery.., in her fallals and be-ribboned shawl. 1992 Sunday Times (Nexis) 31 May [A] young man on the make in the media, with a fat Filofax and a fixation for designer fallals. b. In extended use: a frivolous or unnecessary addition or embellishment. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial gewgaw?c1225 frivolc1450 whim-whama1529 jim-jamc1540 trickc1550 flamfew1574 ribaldry1594 bubble1598 kickshawa1616 fairy money1616 foolation1628 fingle-fanglea1652 trangama1658 tinsel1660 gingerbread1664 finnimbrun1676 gimcrack1676 knacka1677 tawdrum1680 knick-knack1682 trantlum1768 knick-knacket1793 folderol1820 jigamaree1824 novelty1840 fool's gold1870 flapdoodle1877 fal-lal1902 1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns iii. 47 Thou mun sign this list, and all these transfers and fal-lals, and then thou mun go to th' Bank, and tell Mester Lovatt I've sent thee. 1932 Times 20 Sept. 8/2 Even without its distinctively Shavian fal-lals, which happen to be few and good, it would stand by its power of story-telling and the continuously developed interest of its character-drawing. 1957 Technology Mar. 3/4 Some people may find it rather odd, in a journal professedly devoted to training and education for industry, to come across film reviews, music notices and such fal-lals. 2. Chiefly English regional. Affectation or pretentiousness in manner; (more generally) fuss, rigmarole. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] affectation1548 affection1570 phantastry1656 stilt1735 fal-lal1775 coxcombality1785 meemaw1790 posture-making1797 attitudinarianism1803 attitudinizing1812 piminy1819 stiltishness1824 niminy-piminyism1840 gyvera1866 notion1866 attitudinization1871 effectism1871 jam1882 chichi1908 poncing1969 pseudery1972 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss to-doc1330 adoc1380 great (also much) cry and little woolc1460 feery-fary1535 fray1568 stirc1595 do1598 coil1599 hurl1603 ruffle1609 clutterment1611 buzz1628 bustle1637 paddle1642 racket1644 clutter1652 tracas1656 tracasserie1656 circumference1667 flutter1667 hurly-burly1678 fuss1701 fissle1719 fraise1725 hurry-scurry1753 fix-fax1768 fal-lal1775 widdle1789 touse1792 fuffle1801 going-on1817 hurry and scurry1823 sputter1823 tew1825 Bob's-a-dying1829 fidge1832 tamasha1842 mulling1845 mussing1846 fettling1847 fooster1847 trade1854 scrimmage1855 carry-on1861 fuss-and-feathers1866 on-carry1870 make-a-do1880 miration1883 razzle-dazzle1885 song and dance1885 to get a rustle on1891 tea-party1903 stirabout1905 whoop-de-do1910 chichi1928 production1941 go-go1966 1775 Gen. Election: Lett. between Friends I. xiv. 160 This turn of thinking so unlike the romance of lovers, and the fal-lal of common attachments, is..the only whimsicality I can be charged with. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. ‘I canna believe a word 'e says 'e's so much fallal about 'im.’ 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 182 Too much fallol about him to pleease me. 1989 Sunday Times (Nexis) 25 June The ability to play triviality broadscreen, and the substitution of administrative fallal for life. 2009 Times (Nexis) 16 May (Weekend section) 4 I couldn't be bothered, I couldn't go through all that fallal of getting to know somebody well enough to live with him. B. adj. Affected, finicky, foppish; fond of frippery or finery; showy and insubstantial; fancy. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting refinement young-ladyfied1616 genteel1631 genteea1680 fal-lal1747 shabby-genteel1754 fine-ladylike1755 fine-ladyish1777 ladyish1830 silver-fork1831 haw-haw1841 lardy-dardy1861 la-di-dac1883 refained1925 the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [adjective] chisa700 estfula1000 esquaymous1303 squeamousc1325 overnicec1350 curiousc1380 dangerousc1386 delicatea1393 preciousc1395 nicec1400 skigc1400 over-delicatea1425 daintethc1430 ticklec1456 quaint1483 dauncha1500 pickinga1500 feat?1529 elegant?1533 queasy1545 fine1546 fine-fingered1549 fastidious?1555 fine-mouthed1559 chary1567 weamish1571 saucy1573 dainty1576 superfine1576 niced1577 overcurious1579 nicing1581 fineish1582 prick-me-dainty1583 daint1590 finical1592 tiptoe-nice1593 nice1594 nicking1598 choice1601 squeamish1608 marchpane1609 hypercritical1611 particular1616 finicking1661 overcritical1667 just so1696 penurious1703 fal-lal1747 ogertful1754 nackety1756 quiddling1789 pernickety1808 pershittie1808 taffety1814 hypercritic1820 faddy1824 finicky1825 meticulous1827 daintified1834 squeamy1838 picksome1855 choosey1862 picky1867 hyperaesthetic1879 persnickety1885 précieux1891 perskeet1897 tasty1905 Nice Nelly1922 perfectionist1942 snicketya1960 perfectionistic1968 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial > affected or foppish skipjack1598 skipjackly1674 fal-lal1747 macaronian1792 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xlii. 291 Humouring his old fal-lal taste. 1768 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 14 I was so sick of the ceremony & fuss of these fall lall people! 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 309 Your cockups and your fal-lal duds. 1847 A. S. Mayhew & H. Mayhew Greatest Plague of Life vii. 87 Lo and behold! my neat, unpretending chrysalis had changed into a flaunting fal-lal butterfly. 1869 A. C. Gibson Folk-speech Cumberland 57 T' lasses irn't hoaf sa smart, For o' the'r fallal hats an' veils. 1898 Monthly Packet Feb. 175 This, mamma, is your old fal-lal taste. 1939 Table Talk (Melbourne) 26 Jan. 32/3 He'd have ordered some fal-lal thing that would be smashed in two days. Phrases † upon the fal-lal: bordering on the affected or foppish. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)] > slightly upon the fal-lal1753 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xvi. 121 The lady is a little upon the fallal, a little aunt Nellish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fal-lalv. Brit. /falˈlal/, /fə(l)ˈlal/, U.S. /ˌfæ(l)ˈlæl/, /fəˈlæl/ Inflections: Present participle fal-lalling, fal-laling; past tense and past participle fal-lalled, fal-laled; Forms: see fal-lal n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: fal-lal n. Etymology: < fal-lal n. colloquial. Now rare. 1. intransitive. To trifle, dally; to waste time in trifling activity. Also (occasionally) transitive: to fuss over, make a fuss of; to bestow trifles upon. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)] to make it goodlyc1325 bride?1533 affect1600 mimp1673 to give oneself airs1701 fal-lal1818 pose1840 posturize1850 attitudinize1864 primp1875 posture1877 lardy-dardy1887 to put (or pile) on lugs1889 la-di-da1901 profile1970 the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 1818 ‘Ex’ Freedom of Eng. 322 These great folks..are so fal-lalled, and flattered, and fawned upon, that they think they may do anything. 1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. iv. 72 She can't go on fal-lalling with you, and then nothing to come of it. 1860 Leisure Hour 11 Oct. 655/1 I reckon they've other fish to fry than fallalling over them strings [i.e. playing the harp]. 1909 S. R. Crockett in Fortn. Rev. 1 May 990 My good master hath not time to understand, being too busy with his music and fal-lalling after women folk. 1953 Gippsland (Victoria) Times 17 Aug. 2/7 Ezra does not think that's right either—Mary ‘fal-lalling’ with the local squire's son. †2. transitive (in passive). To be (excessively) decked out with finery. Also with about. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament > trim or deck out perfurnish1375 enflourish?a1400 varnish14.. perform1420 to pick outc1429 polish?1440 trimc1516 to set out1523 trick?1532 face1542 trick1545 prank1546 tricka1555 bawdefy1562 tickle1567 prink1573 finify1586 deck1587 decore1603 betrima1616 fangle1615 beprank1648 prim1688 to garnish outa1704 decorate1782 to do off1794 dizen1807 tricolatea1825 fal-lal1845 1845 H. Jennings My Marine Memorandum Bk. III. 22 There sat Kate, dressed up like a lady, with a thingumbob on her head, fringed and fallaled about with red and blue streamer ends. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 219 Fallals, flaunting finery. It is also used participially to a female dressed out beyond her station. ‘See how she's fallal'd out.’ Derivatives fal-ˈlalling n. ΚΠ 1846 Satirist 29 Mar. 103/2 The actor goes through the heavy or serious business, while the treasury clerk undertakes only the light duties of amusing and fal-lalling. 1990 E. O'Brien Lantern Slides 12 They were the only people who gardened, others had not the time or the will for such fal-lalling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1703v.1818
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