Green’s Dictionary of Slang

faddle n.

[Midlands dial. faddle, an over-particular, fussy person]

1. a trifling person; a busybody.

[UK]Partridge DSUE (1984) 373: ca. 1800.

2. an affected and/or homosexual man.

[UK]Partridge DSUE (1984) 373: ca. 1800.