fingle-fangle
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fangle.
Noun
[edit]fingle-fangle (plural fingle-fangles)
- (obsolete) A trifle; something of no importance.
- 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part III Canto III line 453:
- We agree in nothing, but to wrangle
About the slightest fingle-fangle
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC:
- […] each fingle-fangle
on which they doat
References
[edit]- “fingle-fangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.