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单词 faddy
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Definition of faddy in English:

faddy

adjectivefaddier, faddiest ˈfadi
British
  • Having many arbitrary and often unusual likes and dislikes about food.

    〈英〉挑食的;偏食的

    a faddy eater
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Meal replacement diets, for example, are all faddy and the problem is that they are all very short-term solutions, as you have a strange drink or food to replace a balanced meal.
    • ‘I've got my little girl eating fruit now and she's such a faddy eater,’ she said.
    • Out go faddy diets and restrictive regimes, in comes the kind of delicious and nutritious food that makes you feel great just reading about it.
    • Teatime involved cooking to cater for four different faddy appetites.
    • Gluten allergies and dairy intolerances may be nothing new in an increasingly faddy world but a dog owner was still astonished to find her pet was allergic to almost everything - including dog food.
    • Some people think its just being faddy but there are serious consequences for people who have these allergies.
    • Either they can afford to chase the faddy food fashions and pay a fortune or they just have a bland unhealthy diet, because they don't know any better.
    • Combined with gym-going are often faddy, yo-yo, low-fat diets to reduce body fat.
    • But people should realise it's serious and we aren't being faddy or awkward parents when we say our kids can't have certain things to eat.
    • When there is a conflict between their heart and their head, as there often is in childhood, these children often internalise their feelings, leading to nervous tension, faddy eating and ‘school-itis'.
    • Loyd claims not to be a faddy eater - he thinks the Atkins diet is a load of rubbish - but for lunch he orders celeriac roulade without the Bayonne ham, and a tiny plate of dressed crab.
    Synonyms
    fussy, finicky, difficult/hard to please, over-particular, faddish, over-fastidious, dainty, exacting, demanding, selective
    informal choosy, picky, pernickety
    North American informal persnickety
    archaic nice, overnice
    rare finical

Derivatives

  • faddily

  • adverb
    British
    • Food should be balanced roughly, not faddily but balanced none the less.
  • faddiness

  • nounˈfadɪnəs
    British
    • In order to break the ‘I must only do random, yet factually correct and interesting posts’ perception, I'm going to launch into trashy internet faddiness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In clinical practice, some children with food refusal and pickiness (United States) or faddiness (United Kingdom) do gain weight poorly, and some children with slow weight gain from early infancy go on to manifest severe eating problems.

Rhymes

baddy, caddie, caddy, daddy, kabaddi, laddie, paddy
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