fingle-fangle

English

Etymology

From fangle.

Noun

fingle-fangle (plural fingle-fangles)

  1. (archaic) 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fingle-fangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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