faffle
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare famble, maffle and waffle.
Verb[edit]
faffle (third-person singular simple present faffles, present participle faffling, simple past and past participle faffled)
- To stammer or murmur.
- to flap, like a flag
- 2007, Simon Leigh, Wild Women:
- From drooping at half-mast, his personal pennant was faffling away in a whole new wind.
References[edit]
- “faffle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.