| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  f d |
| NOUN: | A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Possibly from fidfad, fussy person, fussy, from fiddle-faddle. | | OTHER FORMS: | fad dism —NOUN
faddist —NOUN
faddy —ADJECTIVE
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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