Farl vs Fadge - What's the difference?
farl | fadge |
(obsolete) A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls.
* 1647', '', '''1854 , Alexander Dyce (editor), ''The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions , Volume 2,
(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 nouns the difference between farl and fadge
is that farl is a quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake while fadge is ulster Irish potato bread - flat farls, griddle-baked. Often served fried.As verbs the difference between farl and fadge
is that farl is obsolete form of lang=en while fadge is to be suitable ({{term|with}} or {{term|to}} something).farl
English
Etymology 1
Contraction of fardel.Noun
(en noun)See also
* soda bread * potato breadEtymology 2
Verb
(en verb)page 416,
- Down with the mainmast ! lay her at hull !
- Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out !
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.
