fadge
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- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
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- 5
Definition of fadge
11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive, obsolete)To be suitable (with or to something).
“Well, Sir, how fadges the new deſign; have you not the luck of all your Brother Projectors, to deceive only your ſelf at laſt?”
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verb
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(intransitive, obsolete)To be suitable (with or to something).
“Well, Sir, how fadges the new deſign; have you not the luck of all your Brother Projectors, to deceive only your ſelf at laſt?”
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(intransitive, obsolete)To agree, to get along (with).
“They shall be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together.”
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(intransitive, obsolete)To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
“I can never fadge well: for I am at such a stay, that except for health and life, there is nothing I will take the paines to fret my selfe about, or will purchase at so high a rate as to trouble my wits for it, or be constrained thereunto.”
- (Geordie)To eat together.
- (Yorkshire)To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
noun
- (Ireland)Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
- (New-Zealand)A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
- (Geordie)A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
- (Yorkshire)A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.
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(UK, archaic, slang)A farthing (old coin).
“"Here's a fadge (farthing) or a button," I said, taking my pocket knife and cutting a few of the stitches holding the cloth and lining together, […]”
- (UK, slang, vulgar)A vagina.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Unknown. According to Chambers, from Old English fēġan (“to join or fit together”); Liberman suggests a Middle English variant of fagot (“bundle of sticks”). Compare also Old English feċġan (“to seize, take hold, bring to”).
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