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fingle-fangle

fingle-fangle noun: a trifle; something of no importance.

Noun

fingle-fangle (plural fingle-fangles)

  1. (obsolete) A trifle; something of no importance.
    • We agree in nothing, but to wrangle
      About the slightest fingle-fangle1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part III Canto III line 453
    • […]each fingle-fangle
      on which they doat1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC

Forms of fingle-fangle

pluralfingle-fangles

Origin of fingle-fangle

From fangle.

Questions about fingle-fangle

What does fingle-fangle mean?
Fingle-fangle means a trifle; something of no importance.
What part of speech is fingle-fangle?
Fingle-fangle is a noun.
What is the plural of fingle-fangle?
The plural of fingle-fangle is fingle-fangles.

Words near fingle-fangle in the dictionary

  1. Finghall
  2. fingie
  3. fingies
  4. Finglas
  5. Finglases
  6. fingle-fangle
  7. fingle-fangles
  8. Finglish
  9. fingo
  10. Fingoland
  11. fingolimod

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