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Definition of Faddle
1. v. i. To trifle; to toy.
Definition of Faddle
1. Verb. To trifle; to toy. ¹
2. Verb. (UK dialect) To fondle; to dandle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Faddle
1. to trifle [v FADDLED, FADDLING, FADDLES] - See also: trifle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faddle
Literary usage of Faddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"A French pad-faddle; of which the burs come wholly round the feat. 5. ... is hurt
or fretted by the faddle, it may be cured by bathing the part with urine, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"faddle. (1) A pack, or bundle. Wat. (2) To dandle ; to cherish. Scott. FADDY.
Frivolous. Weit. Abo the Mme of » Cornwall dance. FADE. (1) Sad; sorrowful. ..."
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