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fadged

fadged is the simple past and past participle of fadge.

Meaning of fadge

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.

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Questions about fadged

What is fadged the simple past and past participle of?
Fadged is the simple past and past participle of fadge.

Words near fadged in the dictionary

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

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