Meaning of faddle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To fiddle (play aimlessly).
2. To dote on.
   UK, dated

Examples

“I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, "a faddling hedonist" […]”

“He faddles over the needless, such as hanging maps up on the walls in the section and putting inkpots on the mantelpiece.”

“I had that awful woman, Celia Thaxter, sitting next to me, boring me to death with what a marvellous writer Mark Twain was […] I said, "look, dear, he's sitting just over there. Why don't you go and talk to him?" She faddled around, blushing like a schoolgirl and saying she couldn't possibly.”

“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.”

““The last year she spent faddling at Aunt Mai's […] I am not sure this is necessary to her happiness, this faddling after other people. Now, to faddle after folk, who don't want you, is madness . . . but to faddle after those that do is very good employment. Now […] you are the very person for her, for she dotes on you […]””

“She was doing no good in church all put about and faddling after Blackie.”

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