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Faded vs Fadged - What's the difference?

faded | fadged |

As verbs the difference between faded and fadged

is that faded is (fade) while fadged is (fadge).

As an adjective faded

is that has lost some of its former colour or intensity.

faded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fade)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has lost some of its former colour or intensity.

    • Derived terms

    * fadedly * fadedness

    fadged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fadge)

    • fadge

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin unknown.

    Verb

    (fadg)
  • (obsolete) To be suitable ((with) or (to) something).
  • * Wycherley
    • Well, Sir, how fadges the new design?
  • (obsolete) To agree, to get along ((with)).
  • * Milton
    • They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together.
  • (obsolete) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
  • *, 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.
  • (Geordie) To eat together.
  • (Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.

    • Etymology 2

    Etymology uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

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