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faffle

faffle verb: to stammer or murmur.

Verb

faffle (third-person singular simple present faffles, present participle faffling, simple past and past participle faffled)

  1. To stammer or murmur.
  2. to flap, like a flag
    • From drooping at half-mast, his personal pennant was faffling away in a whole new wind.2007, Simon Leigh, Wild Women

Forms of faffle

third-person singular presentfaffles
present participlefaffling
past participlefaffled
pastfaffled

Origin of faffle

Compare famble, maffle and waffle.

Questions about faffle

What does faffle mean?
Faffle means to stammer or murmur.
What part of speech is faffle?
Faffle is a verb.
What is the past tense of faffle?
The past tense of faffle is faffled.

Words near faffle in the dictionary

  1. faffier
  2. faffiest
  3. faffing
  4. faffing about
  5. faffing around
  6. faffle
  7. faffled
  8. faffles
  9. faffling
  10. faffs
  11. faffs about

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