faddles

Ruby had sulked and Farmer Tresidder eaten heartily, talking with a full mouth about the rescue, and coarsely ignoring what he called his daughter's "faddles"), the two girls retired to the chamber up-stairs; where the mistress was as good as her word, and pulled the dimity curtains before settling herself down in an easy-chair to listen to extracts from a polite novel as rendered aloud, under dire compulsion, by Mary Jane.

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

And so I think this important day has made a great hole in this side of the paper; and the fiddle-faddles of tomorrow and Monday will make up the rest; and, besides, I shall see Harley on Tuesday before this letter goes.

The Journal to Stella 2003

And so I think this important day has made a great hole in this side of the paper; and the fiddle-faddles of tomorrow and Monday will make up the rest; and, besides, I shall see Harley on Tuesday before this letter goes.

The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

-- Of course, it's mostly father that fiddle-faddles with all that sort of thing.

The Wild Duck 1884

"Hast one of these fiddle-faddles thyself? or dost thou desire to have one?"

It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Don't you see how those two dear old ladies swallow me up in their faddles?

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

The worsted-work sofas, the counterpanes patched or knitted (but these are among the old-fashioned in the country), the bushels of pincushions, the albums they laboriously fill, the tremendous pieces of music they practise, the thousand other fiddle-faddles which occupy the attention of the dear souls -- nay, have we not seen them seated of evenings in a squad or company, Louisa employed at the worsted-work before mentioned,

Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

And so I think this important day has made a great hole in this side of the paper; and the fiddle-faddles of tomorrow and Monday will make up the rest; and, besides, I shall see Harley on Tuesday before this letter goes.

The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

_ Come, come, I'll not be undone for your Fiddle-faddles; I'll lay it all on you, if I be taken.

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

Gru, Out of their faddles into the dirt; and thereby hangs a tale ...

Works 1795