Noun

1. Nonsense word traditional to English ballads and madrigals.
   1. A gaudy thing of little value; a trinket.
   2. Excessive efforts expended on a something trivial; much ado about nothing.

      Fol-de-rol and fiddle dee dee and fiddley faddley foddle all the wishes in the world are poppy cock and twoddle. -- lyrics to Richard Rogers' Cinderella.

   
   

   See also

   
   Michael Quinion, World Wide Words