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

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

n. A hobby ; freak; whim.

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

n. 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.

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

To be busy with trifles.

n. A bundle of straw.

n. A colored ball.

n. 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_."

fashion   

hobby    freak    whim    custom    craze    rage    mania    monomania    frenzy    delirament   

Brad    Chad    Dad    Gad    Mossad    Riyadh    Tad    Thad    ad    add   

craze    infatuation    whim    frivolity    hobby