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Definition of "faddle" [fad•dle]

  • To trifle; to toy. (verb)
  • To fondle; to dandle. (verb)

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Use "faddle" in a sentence
  • "While time and experience make all of us better cyclists, if unchecked they also can conspire to transform us into insufferable pedants--serial retrogrouches and über-curmudgeons who automatically dismiss the strange and unfamiliar as "myth and lore," or "fiddle faddle," or "balderdash," or any other crotchety term of derision to which the cantankerous and ornery are inclined."
  • "Or are we just going to fiddle-faddle re-arranging the objects of our concern on that great addictive ship -- America?"
  • "As you can see, I don't fuss with a doughnut cutter and holes and all that fiddle-faddle."
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