FUDDLE-DUDDLE Definition & Meaning

fuddle-duddle

[ fuhd-l-duhd-l ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

Canadian.

fuddle-duddled, fuddle-duddling.

to depart; be off.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of fuddle-duddle¹

First recorded in 1970–75; used by Pierre Trudeau ( def ) in his defense against accusations of muttering obscenities in Parliament by claiming that he had actually muttered a harmless phrase that possibly was fuddle-duddle; apparently extension of fuddle, after fuddy-duddy, though sense is unaccounted for

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He clashed with the press and with protesters, and lobbed an obscenity at Conservative M.P.s, in what became known as the “fuddle-duddle” affair.

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