different between fickle vs frickle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?k.?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English fikil, fikel, from Old English ficol (“fickle, cunning, tricky, deceitful”), equivalent to fike +? -le. More at fike.

Adjective

fickle (comparative fickler or more fickle, superlative ficklest or most fickle)

1. Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.
2. (figuratively) Changeable.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fikelen, from fikel (“fickle”); see above. Cognate with Low German fikkelen (“to deceive, flatter”), German ficklen, ficheln (“to deceive, flatter”).

Verb

fickle (third-person singular simple present fickles, present participle fickling, simple past and past participle fickled)

1. (transitive) To deceive, flatter.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.

Anagrams

• Fickel

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

Blend of fried +? pickle

Noun

frickle (plural frickles)

1. (Canada, US) A snack food consisting of a fried pickle.
   • 2013, Lisa Faulkner, The Way I Cook... (page 41)

     Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20).

Etymology 2

Noun

frickle (plural frickles)

1. (obsolete) A bushel basket.

Anagrams

• Flicker, fickler, flicker

German

Verb

frickle

1. inflection of frickeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative