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faddle
Part of speech:To trifle; to toy; fiddle- faddle, idle or purposeless action or talk.
Usage examples "faddle":- By the time that you were back, people in the City would have forgotten the policeman, and if you could manage to write home three or four letters about our trade with Japan and China, they would be willing to forget Faddle. - "Ayala's Angel", Anthony Trollope.
- Faddle would do anything he was told to do. - "Ayala's Angel", Anthony Trollope.
- What if he had fled the rich attractiveness of her presence, had shunned her with heroic scrupulousness, acting from some fiddle- faddle notion of so- called " honour"? - "The Sign of the Spider", Bertram Mitford.