fadge
Verb

fadge (fadges, present participle fadging; past and past participle fadged)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something).
    • 1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], OCLC 912643989 ↗; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, OCLC 7479409 ↗, Act IV, scene iii, page 45 ↗:
      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. (obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
    • 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:
      They shall be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
      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, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
Noun

fadge (plural fadges)

  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.



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