feddle verb 3adjective 1noun 2forms 3 verb3 •To fiddle or fidget.For example, a pipe smoker who spends all the time lighting matches and feddling with his pipe, is very distracting in an interview situation. — 1968 •To fuss over.As Mellors writes to Connie at the end of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a man has to fend and feddle for the best, and then trust in something beyond himself. — 1986 •(no longer used) To fiddle (play the fiddle).In a Presbyterian Church where a bass viol had been smuggled or foisted into the choir, the old dominie startled the worshipers by calling upon them to "feddle and sing" the psalm. — 1882 adjective1 •(slang) Federal.Uhmm, I don't know. Uhmm'but it looks like the feddle gummunt running ever'thing. — 1985 noun2 •(no longer used) 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 •(no longer used) A wanton; A spoiled person.Chartier condemns the recreant scarceness of the laggard feddles who lowered their lineage, flung away their honour and like a quaking flock of sheep fled when they should have struck — 1919 formsfeddled · feddling · feddles
