fiddledeedee

Meanings

1. 1
   intj

   an exclamation expressing impatience, disbelief, scorn, or dismissal of something as nonsense

   Fiddledeedee! I do not believe a word of that excuse.

An expressive, rhythmically reduplicated formation based on fiddle, recorded from the late eighteenth century. Its repeated dee syllables imitate playful nonsense sounds, fitting its use to dismiss a claim as absurd or unworthy of serious attention.

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