faffle

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.

References

• “faffle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.