feddle

Fiddle (musical instrument).

Is there ony soond mair meeserable an' peetifu' than the scrape o' a feddle, when it does na touch ony chord i' the human sensorium?

I'll go immadiately an' buy Dermot's ould feddle.

Misspelling of fettle.

Well, whoever that OTHER person was, it appears that the REAL Xona is back and in fine feddle.

I'd rather see him once or twice a month while he gets his strength back, then he'll be more able to come back in fine feddle and kick some butt in style.

To fiddle (play the fiddle).

And my good companions and fellowe souldiours, if you will followe myne advise, laie aside your weapons, hang up your armours by the walles, and learne an other while (for your better advauncements) to pipe, to feddle, to synge, to daunce, to lye, to forge, to flatter, to cary tales, to set ruffe, or do any thyng that your appetites beste serve unto, and that is better fittyng for the tyme.

In a Presbyterian Church where a bass viol had been smuggled or foisted into the choir, the old dominie startled the worshipers by calling upon them to "feddle and sing" the psalm.

Federal.

Uhmm, I don't know. Uhmm'but it looks like the feddle gummunt running ever'thing.

If you're not working for the feddle gummint either directly (Assistant to Administrative Assistant Grade 3(a) in the U.S. Department of Administrative Assistance) or indirectly (lobbying, lawyering, feeding the beast, or living on bailout subsidies) you are a loser chump.