Fadge
Origin 1
Origin unknown.
Full definition of fadge
Verb
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something).
- WycherleyWell, Sir, how fadges the new design?
- (obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
- MiltonThey shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.17: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, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
Origin 2
Etymology uncertain.