Word Study
falderal
CIDE DICTIONARY
falderal, n.
- Nonsense; foolish talk. [1913 Webster]
- a knickknack; a gew-gaw. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
falderal, n. (also folderol)
1 a gewgaw or trifle.
2 a nonsensical refrain in a song.
1 a gewgaw or trifle.
2 a nonsensical refrain in a song.
Etymology
perh. f. falbala trimming on a dress
THESAURUS
falderal
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity, amphigory, anacrusis, babble, babblement, bagatelle, balderdash, bass passage, bauble, bean, bibble-babble, bibelot, bit, blabber, blather, bombast, bourdon, brass farthing, bravery, bridge, burden, button, cadence, cent, chiffon, chorus, claptrap, clinquant, coda, curio, development, division, double-talk, drivel, drool, exposition, farce, farthing, feather, festoons, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, fig, figure, finery, fleabite, flummery, folderol, foofaraw, fribble, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fudge, fuss, fustian, gabble, gaiety, galimatias, gammon, gaud, gaudery, gewgaw, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gilding, gilt, gimcrack, gingerbread, gobbledygook, hair, halfpenny, harmonic close, hill of beans, hocus-pocus, humbug, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, jabber, jargon, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, measure, minikin, mockery, molehill, movement, mumbo jumbo, musical phrase, musical sentence, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, ornament, pack of nonsense, palaver, part, passage, paste, peppercorn, period, phrase, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinchbeck, pinprick, prate, prattle, rant, rap, red cent, refrain, resolution, response, rigamarole, rigmarole, ritornello, rodomontade, row of pins, rubbish, rush, section, shit, skimble-skamble, snap, sneeshing, sou, stanza, statement, strain, straw, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, superfluity, tailpiece, tinsel, toy, trappings, trash, trickery, trifle, trinket, triviality, trumpery, tuppence, tutti, tutti passage, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, two cents, twopence, vaporing, variation, verse, waffling, whim-whamFor further exploring for "falderal" in Webster Dictionary Online