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- verb Present participle of
faddle .
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Examples
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WATCHING Kellen's rapt excited face as he spoke of Verlin's fiddle-faddling, Idalia blessed the old Centaur for staying behind to play here tonight.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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I'd read on - there's no fliddle-faddling about setting scenes - writer in charge.
The First Line Game Lauri 2009
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I want to apologise to the villagers - particularly the non-residents, so to speak, who keep getting these updates for a book they're not interested in and will never ever read - for these fiddle-faddling thousand and two-thousand word updates on their fpages.
May 16th, 2008 2008
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WATCHING Kellen's rapt excited face as he spoke of Verlin's fiddle-faddling, Idalia blessed the old Centaur for staying behind to play here tonight.
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An Indian critic once called Stevenson 'a faddling Hedonist. '
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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Who's to mind the place with all the folk gone fiddle-faddling out?
Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892
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It sounds like having a castle in Spain, or a sheep-walk in Arcadia, and I suppose that merely to wish for it is to be what indignant journalists call "a faddling hedonist."
Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888
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I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, 'a faddling hedonist, 'for this description of the brother's motives gave me somewhat of a shock.
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I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, 'a faddling hedonist, 'for this description of the brother's motives gave me somewhat of a shock.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, "a faddling hedonist," for this description of the brother's motives gave me somewhat of a shock.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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"A faddling hedonist." - Robert Louis Stevenson, The Boarders
September 21, 2009