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Fadge vs Fadged - What's the difference?

fadge | fadged |

As verbs the difference between fadge and fadged

is that fadge is (obsolete|intransitive) to be suitable ((with) or (to) something) while fadged is (fadge).

As a noun fadge

is (ulster) irish potato bread - flat farls, griddle-baked often served fried.

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.
  • References

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    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.
  • References

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