fickle

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For fickle is Annadoah--fickle, fickle the heart of the maiden Annadoah Ootah shrieked an enraged defiance.

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  1. adjective Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.

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  1. Middle English fikel, from Old English ficol, deceitful.

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  1. from Middle English fikel, fikil, fykel, from Anglo-Saxon ficol, deceitful, crafty (cf. gefic, deceit), from *fician, befician, Middle English fiken, deceive: see fike.
  2. from Middle English fikelen (= Low German fikkelen = German ficklen, ficheln), deceive, flatter; from the adjective
 

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/ˈfɪkl/
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