• Fadge

    Origin 1

    Origin unknown.

    Full definition of fadge

    Verb

    1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something).
      • WycherleyWell, Sir, how fadges the new design?
    2. (obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
      • MiltonThey shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together.
    3. (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.
    4. (Geordie) To eat together.
    5. (Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.

    Origin 2

    Etymology uncertain.

    Noun

    fadge

    (plural fadges)
    1. Ulster Irish potato bread - flat farls, griddle-baked. Often served fried.
    2. (New Zealand) A wool pack. traditionally made of jute now often synthetic.
    3. (Geordie) Small bread loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
    4. (Yorkshire) A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.
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