Crossword-Solution: FADDY 5 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The suspicion, however, did exist among those who like to ignore the obvious and magnify the remote, and throughout the negotiations the hand of Great Britain was weakened, as her adversary had doubtless calculated that it would be, by an earnest but fussy and faddy minority.

Mamma was so faddy! Before Dolly had spent three whole days at the rectory, she talked just as the Compsons did; she picked up by pure instinct the territorial slang of the county families.

Young Faddy, my Dearest Emma, brought me, two days ago, your dear and most kind letter of November 26th, and you are sure that I shall take a very early opportunity of promoting him; and he appears to be grown a fine young man, but vacancies do not happen very frequently in this station.

Some lines of an old quotation, picked up he knew not where, wandered into his mind-- _Comedy, Tragedy, Laughter and Tears! Thou'rt rolled as one in the Dust of Years_! With a sigh he turned to his own cot and began to unpack and arrange his kit; in regulation fashion, and with such small faddy fixings customary to men inured to barrack life.

This particular performance was known as a "faddy." It is probable that some of our May-day customs came from the Romans, who kept the festival of Flora, the goddess of flowers, at this season.