faddle
verbEtymology
Compare fiddle, fiddle-faddle.
Definitions
To fiddle (play aimlessly).
- 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.
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.
- She was doing no good in church all put about and faddling after Blackie.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA