Meaning of feddle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Fiddle (musical instrument).
   obsolete
2. A wanton; A spoiled person.
   obsolete

Examples

“Is there ony soond mair meeserable an' peetifu' than the scrape o' a feddle, when it does na touch ony chord i' the human sensorium?”

“I'll go immadiately an' buy Dermot's ould feddle.”

““Aye, aye!” they all cry out. “Yer feddle, Tam, yer feddle!” (Tam gets it and comes down.)”

“Well, whoever that OTHER person was, it appears that the REAL Xona is back and in fine feddle.”

“I'd rather see him once or twice a month while he gets his strength back, then he'll be more able to come back in fine feddle and kick some butt in style.”

“I'm in my fine feddle — as one of my masters, Mr. Henry Val Miller would surely shout, "Well, fuck a duck!"”

“Sherwood defines CockNEY, by this word, niais, and mignot, cailnette, the former being, in Cotgrave, “a wanton, feddle, favourite, a dolling, dandling, darling,” and the latter, “foole, ninny, noddy, natural.””

“Chartier condemns the recreant scarceness of the laggard feddles who lowered their lineage, flung away their honour and like a quaking flock of sheep fled when they should have struck ;”

“Capulet regrets that Juliet has been “fedled” (“pampered,” RC, s.v. “Cadelé”) and as a result has become a “feddle” (“A wanton,” RC, s.v. “Mignot).”

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