Noun: feddle
| Singular | feddle |
| Plural | feddles |
Sample Sentences
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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, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall, →ISBN:]
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I'll go immadiately an' buy Dermot's ould feddle. [1854, Grace Greenwood, The Little Pilgrim - Volumes 1-3, page 27:]
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“Aye, aye!” they all cry out. “Yer feddle, Tam, yer feddle!” (Tam gets it and comes down.) [1899, Jon Templeton, The Romance of Robert Burns:]
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Well, whoever that OTHER person was, it appears that the REAL Xona is back and in fine feddle. [1999 August 5, Mimi Weasel, “Proper Punishment for Linda Tripp”, in alt.politics.clinton (Usenet):]
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I'd rather see him once or twice a month while he gets his strength back, then he'll be more able to come back in fine feddle and kick some butt in style. [2006 November 20, Nyssa, “I'm going to miss Kevin and Kelly”, in alt.tv.one-life-to-live (Usenet):]
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I'm in my fine feddle — as one of my masters, Mr. Henry Val Miller would surely shout, "Well, fuck a duck!" [2014, Admiral Pat Arnold, Omar Khayyam and Etta James: Mooning Santa Barbara and Gertrude Tennyson, Your Protruding Colossal Bush Has Really Got Me Going!, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like feddle
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
Eye dialect spelling descended from Middle English ffedle, fedele, fethil, fethele, variants of Middle English fithele, from Old English fiþele (“fiddle, viol, violin”). More at English fiddle. See: Middle English Nouns '
ffedle', Middle English Nouns '
fithele', Old English Nouns '
fiþele', English Nouns '
fiddle'.