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Webster 1913 Edition


Fingle-fangle

Fin′gle-fanˊgle

,
Noun.
[From
fangle
.]
A trifle.
[Low]
Hudibras.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fingle-fangle

FIN'GLE-FANGLE

,
Noun.
A trifle. [Vulgar.]

Definition 2024


fingle-fangle

fingle-fangle

English

Noun

fingle-fangle (plural fingle-fangles)

  1. (archaic) 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