A hobby, a temporary fancy, a whim. A contraction of faddle in “fiddle-faddle.”
“Among the fads that Charley had taken up for a time . . was that of collecting old prints.”—Eggleston: Faith Doctor, chap. iii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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