fadging

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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