fiddlestick

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noun

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.

“I don't care a fiddlestick!”

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fiddlebowviolin bow
Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounfiddlestick (plural fiddlesticks)

plural fiddlesticks

  1. 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.
  2. A bow used to play the fiddle.

    Synonyms: fiddlebow

  3. A whit; a jot.

    I don't care a fiddlestick!

interjection
  1. datedDated form of fiddlesticks.

    "A—a most distinguished visitor has just arrived." "Distinguished fiddlestick!" said Aunt Letty. "There hasn't been a ring at the bell for the last hour."

    1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA bow used to play the fiddle.

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More synonyms by meaning

nouna bow used in playing the violin

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violin bow
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishfydylstyk
  2. Englishfiddlestick

From Middle English fydylstyk, ffidillstyke; equivalent to fiddle + stick.

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APA

fiddlestick. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fiddlestick

MLA

“fiddlestick.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fiddlestick. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fiddlestick,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fiddlestick.

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