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faddy, a. (and n.) Chiefly dial. and colloq.|ˈfædɪ|
[f. fad n. + -y.]
1. Of persons and personal attributes: Occupied with fads, particular about trifles, crotchety. Of things: Of the nature of a fad, taken up as a fad.
1824Mrs. Sherwood Waste Not i. 11 She is so faddy. 1885Sat. Rev. 21 Feb. 238 The local sanitary official may be crotchety and ‘faddy’. 1885Kendal Mercury 30 Jan. 6/4 Such a faddy thing as the planting of trees at this place. 1888McCarthy & Praed Ladies' Gallery II. vii. 112 A faddy old book-collector.
2. n. = fad n.2 2.
1887G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 239 It's bad enough to be under a real missus who is a faddy.
Hence ˈfaddiness.
1865Cornh. Mag. May 621 The extreme faddiness of the old falconers. |