"faddle" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Compare fiddle, fiddle-faddle.",
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          "ref": "1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, quoting an anonymous reviewer in the Allahabad Pioneer, June 27, 1878, “Our Lady of the Snows – The Boarders”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, page 99",
          "text": "I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, \"a faddling hedonist\" […]",
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          "ref": "1906, The Building News and Engineering Journal, volume 91, page 896",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "2017, M.J. Trow, chapter 11, in The Island",
          "text": "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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        "To fiddle (play aimlessly)."
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          "ref": "1893, Sebastian Kneipp, My Water-cure Tested for Than 35 Years and Published for the Cure of Diseases and the Preservation of Health, page 26",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1950, Cecil Woodham-Smith, quoting Mary Elizabeth Mohl, Florence Nightingale 1820-1910, page 435",
          "text": "“The last year she spent faddling at Aunt Mai's […] I am not sure this is necessary to her happiness, this faddling after other people. Now, to faddle after folk, who don't want you, is madness . . . but to faddle after those that do is very good employment. Now […] you are the very person for her, for she dotes on you […]”",
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          "text": "She was doing no good in church all put about and faddling after Blackie.",
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        "To dote on."
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        "(UK, dated) To dote on."
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          "text": "I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, \"a faddling hedonist\" […]",
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          "ref": "1906, The Building News and Engineering Journal, volume 91, page 896",
          "text": "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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          "text": "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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          "text": "“The last year she spent faddling at Aunt Mai's […] I am not sure this is necessary to her happiness, this faddling after other people. Now, to faddle after folk, who don't want you, is madness . . . but to faddle after those that do is very good employment. Now […] you are the very person for her, for she dotes on you […]”",
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