different between faddle vs maddle

English

Compare fiddle, fiddle-faddle.

faddle (third-person singular simple present faddles, present participle faddling, simple past and past participle faddled)

To trifle; to toy.
(Britain, dialect) To fondle; to dandle.
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From mad +? -le.

maddle (third-person singular simple present maddles, present participle maddling, simple past and past participle maddled)

(intransitive) To be or become crazy; rave; be confused in mind; be delirious; lose one's way; be dotingly fond of.
(transitive) To craze; confuse in mind; bewilder; masker.

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