fadge

verb, noun — 11 senses

fadge

verb

/fæd͡ʒ/

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”).

1

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?1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii, page 45:
2

Obsolete To agree, to get along (with).

  • They shall be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together.1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
3

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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
4

Geordie To eat together.

5

Yorkshire, Of a horse To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.

fadge

noun

Etymology Uncertain, but potentially from or related to Old English faċġ (“flat-fish, plaice, flounder”).

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.

fadge

noun
1

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, […]1868, Thomas Wright, Johnny Robinson, page 173:

fadge

noun

Etymology Abbreviation.

1

UK, Slang, Vulgar A vagina.

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