Noun: fad
Sample Sentences
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You're a fad, that means you're something that we've already had, but once you're gone, you don't come back. [2004, Andre R. Young, “Encore”, in Encore:]
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The pet rock fad was started by an advertising executive named Gary Dahl. The premise was simple: take ordinary rocks, glue eyes on them, and market them as pets. [2010, Eric J. Cesal, Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice, page 134:]
Nouns inflected like fad
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Of English dialectal origin. Further origin obscure. Possibly from Old English ġefæd (“order, decorum”) (compare Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy”), fadian, ġefadian (“to set in order, arrange”), whence Middle English faden (“to arrange”)); or from French fadaise ("a trifling thought"; see fadaise). See: Old English Nouns '
gefæd', Old English Nouns '
gefæd', French Nouns '
fadaise'.