Fidge vs Fedge - What's the difference?
fidge | fedge |
(obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
As nouns the difference between fidge and fedge
is that fidge is (obsolete|dialectal|scotland) a shake; fiddle or similar agitation while fedge is a fence made up of living plants, especially willow, thus somewhat resembling a hedge.As a verb fidge
is (obsolete|dialectal|scotland) to fidget; jostle or shake.fidge
English
Verb
- "Look, Jim, how my fingers fidges ," he continued in the pleading tone. "I can't keep 'em still, not I. I haven't had a drop this blessed day. That doctor's a fool, I tell you. If I don't have a dram o' rum, Jim, I'll have the horrors..."