fiddlestick

IPA: fˈɪdʌɫstɪk

One of a pair of sticks, similar to drumsticks, used by a second player to percuss the strings of a fiddle while the main player plays via bow.
A bow used to play the fiddle.
A whit; a jot.

Examples of "fiddlestick" in Sentences

Your card-purse? you a card-purse! you a fiddlestick.
“Lead him to fiddlestick, Hedzoff,” said a female voice.
“Should be a fiddlestick, my dear,” the old Colonel answered.
‘Imperial fiddlestick!’ said the King, rubbing his nose, which had been hurt by the fall.
And this was the first time George Esmond Warrington, Esquire, was ever called a fiddlestick.
“A viper — a fiddlestick,” said Miss Sharp to the old lady, almost fainting with astonishment.
I declare, said my uncle Toby, smit with pity, I know of none; unless it be the pleasure which it has pleased God! A fiddlestick! quoth she.
"It be a kind of fiddlestick!" said the enraged Master Chuter; and turning round his eye fell on Jan, who was looking as disconsolate as himself.
My Lord confesses that there is some weight in this argument: but then pleads sentiment: my Lady says, a fiddlestick for sentiment, after having been married so long.
“A tear — a fiddlestick, MR. STERNE,” I growled out, for of course I knew my friend in the wig and satin breeches to be no other than the notorious, nay, celebrated Mr. Laurence