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Fickle

//ˈfɪk.əl// adj, name, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.

    "O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle, / If thou art fickle, what doſt thou with him / That is renown'd for faith? be fickle Fortune: / For then I hope thou wilt not keepe him long, / But ſend him backe."

  2. 2
    Changeable. figuratively

    "fickle breeze"

Adjective
  1. 1
    liable to sudden unpredictable change wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    To deceive, flatter. transitive
  2. 2
    To puzzle, perplex, nonplus. UK, dialectal, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English fikil, fikel, from Old English ficol (“fickle, cunning, tricky, deceitful”), equivalent to fike + -le. More at fike.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fikelen, from fikel (“fickle”); see above. Cognate with Low German fikkelen (“to deceive, flatter”), German ficklen, ficheln (“to deceive, flatter”).

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