subs. (old).—A contracted form of FIDDLE-FADDLE (q.v.); also applied to persons.
1754. The World, No. 95. The youngest, who thinks in her heart that her sister is no better than a slattern, runs into the contrary extreme, and is, in everything she does, an absolute FIDFAD.
1874. E. L. LINTON, Patricia Kemball, ch. xvi. The FIDFADS, called improvements, which were not wanted and seldom properly managed.
