Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of faddle.
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- noun A shortened form of the term "federal agent".
- verb The act of
fast forwarding past the standard FBI warning at the first of a movie.
Etymologies
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Examples
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McCain played the media like a feddle and outfoxed CNN.
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All blamed him for his extravagance, but little Katy, who stole up to him and whispered -- "Niver mind the hard discoorse, Larry; ye've got the feddle ony how, and it's mighty glad I am."
Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children Grace Greenwood 1863
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"Suppose, Larry, ye strike up a tune on yer feddle, to call the attintion of the folk, just," said he, at last.
Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children Grace Greenwood 1863
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I certainly think them moderate, restrained, well-measured responses to the overweening anarcho-tyranny that our "feddle gummint" has become.
third world county 2008
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I can certainly appreciate where you’re coming from, Waldo, and I want to reiterate that having belatedly realized the decision was one made at the corporate level and not by the feddle gummint, I’m cool with it.
Waldo Jaquith - Kroger: Our employees have to do their job. 2007
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I'll go immadiately an buy Dermot's ould feddle. "
Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children Grace Greenwood 1863
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It's be nice if one were allowed to make a principled argument against "feddle gummint" so-called "welfare" spending (really not-so-charitable "charity" giving by the feds of other people's money to folks who've neither earned it nor, often nowadays, care to.
third world county David 2010
oroboros commented on the word feddle
A favorite, a favored person; teacher's pet. --NPR's Says You
December 14, 2013