Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To stammer.
Wiktionary
- v. UK, dialect To stammer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Prov. Eng. To stammer.
Etymologies
- Compare famble and maffle. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While the "colleagues" fret and faffle about global warning, this is in the here and now and, as all the experts are saying, it ain't getting better.”
“The family event features ice cream, pizza, arts and crafts and dancing for kids, Irish music by the Mike Reynolds Band, Irish step dancers and free faffle for adults.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘faffle’.
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Tawkward
Verbal 'wtf' exchanges; odd moments of conversation and socializing.
somniloquy, bafflegab, syllepsis, sesquipedalian, whinge, divulge, anacoluthon, anaphora, sumpsimus, persiflage, eristic, overtones and 198 more...
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snowygal18's Words
faffle, ninja, cabbage, frolic, elf, elfin, plethora, onus, word, gallic, fantastic, germanic and 2 more...
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Because I like them : E --- F
flamfoo, fangast, flattybouch, foison, flothery, flychter, fysigunkus, fruzz, fittie-lan, furr-ahin, faleste, flyndrig and 54 more...
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Least Favorites
choicest, sassafras, vomit, amorous, testes, agrarian, egregious, lactate, pus, crotchety, cul-de-sac, precipice and 74 more...
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archaic
galligaskin, liripoop, twiddlepoop, calcographer, wem, cornobbled, daspygal, faffle, hobberdehoy, pith, cerusleus, wilkin and 10 more...
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I've Been Cornobbled!
From Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader:
"You won't find these archaic words in most dictionaries, but take our word for it--they're real. And just for fun, try to use them in a ...hobberdehoy, faffle, dasypygal, cornobble, collieshangie, wem, calcographer, bodewash, twiddlepoop, liripoop, leptorrhinian, bridelope and 61 more...
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tbtabby Verb: To stutter or mumble. Oct 3, 2008