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faddy

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FAD
abbr.
flavin adenine dinucleotide
fad  (fd)
n.
A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.
[Possibly from fidfad, fussy person, fussy, from fiddle-faddle.]
faddism n.
faddist n.
faddy adj.
faddy [ˈfædɪ]
adj -dier, -diest
of, having, or involving personal and often transitory whims, esp about food
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.faddy - intensely fashionable for a short time
faddish
fashionable, stylish - being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
faddy
adjective particular, choosy (informal), picky (informal), hard to please, exacting, discriminating, fussy, fastidious, nit-picking (informal), finicky, pernickety, overparticular My boys have always been faddy eaters.
Translations
faddy [ˈfædɪ] ADJ (Brit) [person] → que tiene sus manías, difícil de contentar; [distaste, desire] → idiosincrático
faddy [ˈfædi] (British) adj (= fussy) → difficile
faddy [ˈfædɪ] adj → capriccioso/a
to be a faddy eater → essere schizzinoso/a
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We are faddy people, you know--faddy but kind-hearted.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
(which was that of a comparatively stationary universe visited occasionally by convulsions of change) had some rather faddy fashionableness at Oxford, and got so far as to be named "Catastrophism".
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
 
 
 
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