fingle-fangle

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English

Etymology

From fangle.

Noun

fingle-fangle (plural fingle-fangles)

(obsolete) 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
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: , London: Nath Ponder , →OCLC:
  […] each fingle-fangle
  on which they doat

References

“fingle-fangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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