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fadge

/fæd͡ʒ/

fadge verb: to be suitable (with or to something).

Verb

fadge (third-person singular simple present fadges, present participle fadging, simple past and past participle fadged)

  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?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 […]...
  2. (intransitive, 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. (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.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) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.

Noun (1)

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.

Noun (2)

fadge (plural fadges)

  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

Noun (3)

fadge (plural fadges)

  1. (UK, slang, vulgar) A vagina.

Forms of fadge

Verb
third-person singular presentfadges
present participlefadging
past participlefadged
pastfadged
Noun
pluralfadges

Origin of fadge

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”).

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

Abbreviation.

Words that rhyme with fadge

Questions about fadge

What does fadge mean?
Fadge means to be suitable (with or to something).
What part of speech is fadge?
Fadge can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce fadge?
Fadge is pronounced /fæd͡ʒ/.
What is the past tense of fadge?
The past tense of fadge is fadged.

Words near fadge in the dictionary

  1. fades out
  2. fades to black
  3. fadesome
  4. fadest
  5. fadeth
  6. fadge
  7. fadged
  8. fadger
  9. fadgers
  10. fadges
  11. fadging

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