Faddle

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

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He faddles over the needless, such as hanging maps up on the walls in the section and putting inkpots on the mantelpiece.

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I had that awful woman, Celia Thaxter, sitting next to me, boring me to death with what a marvellous writer Mark Twain was […] I said, "look, dear, he's sitting just over there. Why don't you go and talk to him?" She faddled around, blushing like a schoolgirl and saying she couldn't possibly.

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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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