faffle

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English

Etymology

Compare famble, maffle and waffle.

Verb

faffle (third-person singular simple present faffles, present participle faffling, simple past and past participle faffled)

  1. To stammer or murmur.
  2. 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.

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