fingle-fangle

English

Etymology

From fangle.

Noun

fingle-fangle (plural fingle-fangles)

1. (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[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC:

     […] each fingle-fangle
     on which they doat

References

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