fadge

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10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/fæd͡ʒ/

Definition of fadge

11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (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

  1. (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?”
  2. (intransitive, obsolete)To agree, to get along (with).
    “They shall be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together.”
  3. (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.”
  4. (Geordie)To eat together.
  5. (Yorkshire)To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.

noun

  1. (Ireland)Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
  2. (New-Zealand)A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
  3. (Geordie)A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
  4. (Yorkshire)A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.
  5. (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, […]”
  6. (UK, slang, vulgar)A vagina.

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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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