from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.
from The Century Dictionary.
To be busy with trifles.
noun A trivial fancy adopted and pursued for a time with irrational zeal; a matter of no importance, or an important matter imperfectly understood, taken up, and urged with more zeal than sense; a whim; a crotchet; a temporary hobby.
noun A person of whims; one who is difficult to please.
noun A bundle of straw.
noun A colored ball.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A hobby ; freak; whim.
noun a practise followed enthusiastically by a number of people for a limited period of time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Possibly from fidfad, fussy person, fussy, from fiddle-faddle.]
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Examples
It simply means that he must give up some other fad or fancy and take up with this last, which, be it here reiterated, is no _fad_.
Beach-related motifs are very popular and I've seen them everywhere this year, but what sets Jessica's items apart from the fad is her amazing craftsmanship and wonderful whimsy associated with each piece.
Beach-related motifs are very popular and I've seen them everywhere this year, but what sets Jessica's items apart from the fad is her amazing craftsmanship and wonderful whimsy associated with each piece.
This beautifully designed volume covers a roughly two decade-long design fad from the late 19th-century that has previously been given scant attention by historians.
This beautifully designed volume covers a roughly two decade-long design fad from the late 19th-century that has previously been given scant attention by historians.
reesetee commented on the word fad
Originally fadaise
March 7, 2007