intj. (colloquial).—Nonsense; sometimes FIDDLESTICK’S END and FIDDLE-DE-DEE.

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  1600.  NASHE, Summer’s Last Will, in wks. (GROSART) VI., 130. Bacchus. A FIDDLESTICKE! ne’re tell me I am full of words.

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  1701.  FARQUHAR, Sir Harry Wildair, Act IV., Sc. ii. Lure. Golden pleasures! Golden FIDDLESTICKS!—What d’ye tell me of your canting stuff?

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  1834.  SOUTHEY, The Doctor, ch. clxxxix. At such an assertion he would have exclaimed, a FIDDLESTICK! Why and how that word has become an interjection of contempt I must leave those to explain who can.

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  Subs.—1.  See quot.

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  1821.  D. HAGGART, Life, Glossary, p. 173. FIDDLESTICK, a spring saw.

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  2.  (venery).—The penis. For synonyms, see CREAMSTICK and PRICK.

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  3.  (old).—A sword.

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  1595.  SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1. Here’s my FIDDLESTICK: here’s that shall make you dance.

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