noun. A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.

To be busy with trifles.

noun. A trivial fancy adopted and pursued for a time with irrational zeal; a matter of no importance, or an important matter imperfectly understood, taken up, and urged with more zeal than sense; a whim; a crotchet; a temporary hobby.

noun. A person of whims; one who is difficult to please.

noun. A bundle of straw.

noun. A colored ball.

noun. A hobby ; freak; whim.

noun. a practise followed enthusiastically by a number of people for a limited period of time.

noun. A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.

noun. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

"It simply means that he must give up some other fad or fancy and take up with this last, which, be it here reiterated, is no _fad_."

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