Fiddlestick
[fidlstik]
Definition
(n.) The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
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Examples
- A viper--a fiddlestick, said Miss Sharp to the old lady, almost fainting with astonishment. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Protect a fiddlestick! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Fanny said I was very good, and I answered fiddlestick! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Wait for wisdom and conscience in public agents--fiddlestick! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Fiddlesticks! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- When I inquire what this means, Penelope says, Fiddlesticks! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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