fickle
adjective
1.
marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments
- “fickle friends”
- “a flirt”
2.
liable to sudden unpredictable change
- “erratic behavior”
- “fickle weather”
- “mercurial twists of temperament”
- “a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next”
Origin
From Middle English fikelen, from fikel (“fickle”); see above. Cognate with Low German fikkelen (“to deceive, flatter”), German ficklen, ficheln (“to deceive, flatter”).
Phrases
- fickle finger of fate
- fickle mistress
- fucked by the fickle finger of fate
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