"fuddle-duddle" meaning in All languages combined

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Interjection [English]

Audio: En-us-fuddle-duddle.ogg
Etymology: There is an example of the phrase's use in the early 1940s, in "Mother Finds a Body", by Gypsy Rose Lee: "...when [he] asks me where I was on the night of so-and-so, I'll tell him to go fuddle his duddle". However the expression fuddle-duddle is attributed to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former prime minister of Canada, who according to some sources said it in parliament on 16 February 1971 and repeated it when pressed by television reporters about using profanity in respect to members of Parliament (Canadian House of Commons). Head templates: {{en-interj}} fuddle-duddle
  1. (euphemistic, originally Canada) Fuck! Fuck off! Tags: euphemistic Categories (topical): English minced oaths
    Sense id: en-fuddle-duddle-en-intj-RjnC6vSL Disambiguation of English minced oaths: 60 40 Categories (other): Canadian English, English euphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English reduplications, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 55 45 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 62 38 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 55 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

Audio: En-us-fuddle-duddle.ogg Forms: fuddle-duddles [present, singular, third-person], fuddle-duddling [participle, present], fuddle-duddled [participle, past], fuddle-duddled [past]
Etymology: From fuddle, after fuddy-duddy, but development of meaning unclear. Perhaps from the interjection coined by Pierre Trudeau (see next etymology). Head templates: {{en-verb}} fuddle-duddle (third-person singular simple present fuddle-duddles, present participle fuddle-duddling, simple past and past participle fuddle-duddled)
  1. To depart, to be off.
    Sense id: en-fuddle-duddle-en-verb-4QvMmraS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 55 45 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 55 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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