Crossword-Solution: FADDLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Faddle | v. i. | To trifle; to toy. |
| Faddle | v. t. | To fondle; to dandle. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “FADDLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fiddle-_____ (nonsense) | 1 answer |
| fiddle | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FADDLE (5)
Fiddle faddle, don't tell me of this and that, and everything in the world, but give me mathemacular demonstration; answer me directly.
Blessed, blessed thought! No more fiddle-faddle novels! When will you arrive, O happy Golden Age!" Well, it has arrived, though we are none the happier for all that.
They are obliged to cut wood, to travel three or four leagues with the child; in short, they walk, they stand, they work, as if they had not lain in, and we cannot see that they suffer any injury by it; and we sometimes try to persuade our wives to lie-in so, and that the way of lying-in in Holland is a mere fiddle-faddle.
After a pause of a few seconds he continued--continued in slower, to all appearances more unwilling, accents-- "At the time I believed what Lukianov said, but subsequently I came to see that things were not altogether as he had represented--that woman is merely a delusion, and poetry merely fiddle-faddle; and that a man cannot escape his fate, and that, though good in war, boldness is, in peace affairs, but naked effrontery.
They said she was a troublesome fiddle-faddle old woman, and so ceremonious that there was no bearing of her.
Quotes with FADDLE (1)
And at the risk of sounding like Andy Rooney on Sixty Minutes, have you ever wondered why we say fiddle-faddle and not faddle- fiddle? Why is it ping-pong and pitter-patter rather than pong-ping and patter-pitter? Why dribs and drabs, rather than vice versa? Why can't a kitchen be span and spic? Whence riff-raff, mish-mash, flim-flam, chit-chat, tit for tat, knick-knack, zig-zag, sing-song, ding-dong, King Kong, criss-cross, shilly-shally, see-saw, hee-haw, flip-flop, hippity…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1994).