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feddles

feddles is the plural of feddle.

feddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of feddle.

Meaning of feddle

Noun (1)

feddle (plural feddles)

  1. (obsolete) Fiddle (musical instrument).
    • Is there ony soond mair meeserable an' peetifu' than the scrape o' a feddle, when it does na touch ony chord i' the human sensorium?1816, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall, →ISBN

Noun (2)

feddle (plural feddles)

  1. (obsolete) A wanton; A spoiled person.
    • Sherwood defines CockNEY, by this word, niais, and mignot, cailnette, the former being, in Cotgrave, “a wanton, feddle, favourite, a dolling, dandling, darling,” and the latter, “foole, ninny, noddy, natural.”1822, The Gentleman's Magazine - Volume 92, Part 2; Volume 132, page 616

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Questions about feddles

What is feddles the plural of?
Feddles is the plural of feddle.

Words near feddles in the dictionary

  1. Feddersens
  2. feddest
  3. fedding
  4. feddle
  5. feddled
  6. feddles
  7. feddling
  8. Fede
  9. fede ring
  10. fede rings
  11. Fedele

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