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Faddle

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To fiddle (play aimlessly).

    "I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, "a faddling hedonist" […]"

  2. 2
    To dote on. UK, dated

    "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."

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Compare fiddle, fiddle-faddle.

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