Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Fad

(A). A hobby, a temporary fancy, a whim. A contraction of faddle in “fiddle-faddle.”

“Among the fads that Charley had taken up for a time was that of collecting old prints.” —Eggleston: Faith Doctor, chap. iii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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