Feddle

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.

“Aye, aye!” they all cry out. “Yer feddle, Tam, yer feddle!” (Tam gets it and comes down.)

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.

I'm in my fine feddle — as one of my masters, Mr. Henry Val Miller would surely shout, "Well, fuck a duck!"

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.