faddle

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faddle

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Compare fiddle, fiddle-faddle.

verb faddles · faddling · faddled

  1. To fiddle (play aimlessly). I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, "a faddling hedonist" […]
  2. UK, dated To dote on. Even then, when nurse is ready to take baby out for a walk, properly wrapped up, faddling Mamma comes to examine, if not a little corner remains to be closed to the air.

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