Cadged vs Fadged - What's the difference?
cadged | fadged |
(cadge)
(Geordie) To beg.
(US, British, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince someone to do something they might not normally do.
To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
(fadge)
(obsolete) To be suitable ((with) or (to) something).
* Wycherley
(obsolete) To agree, to get along ((with)).
* Milton
(obsolete) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
*, II.17:
(Geordie) To eat together.
(Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
(Ulster) Irish potato bread - flat farls, griddle-baked. Often served fried.
(New Zealand) A wool pack. traditionally made of jute now often synthetic.
(Geordie) Small bread loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
(Yorkshire) A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.
As verbs the difference between cadged and fadged
is that cadged is past tense of cadge while fadged is past tense of fadge.cadged
English
Verb
(head)cadge
English
Verb
- "Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?"
- (Halliwell)
- (Wright)
Derived terms
* cadger * codgerSynonyms
* (obtain from others) scrounge, bumReferences
* *Anagrams
*fadged
English
Verb
(head)fadge
English
Etymology 1
Origin unknown.Verb
(fadg)- Well, Sir, how fadges the new design?
- They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together.
- 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.
