Fidge vs Midge - What's the difference?
fidge | midge |
(obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Douglas Larson
, title=Runaway Devils Lake
, volume=100, issue=1, page=46
, magazine=
As nouns the difference between fidge and midge
is that fidge is a shake; fiddle or similar agitation while midge is any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera.As a verb fidge
is 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..."
midge
English
(wikipedia midge)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}