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Fidge vs Midge - What's the difference?

fidge | midge |

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

  • (obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
  • *1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
  • "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..."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) A shake; fiddle or similar agitation.
  • midge

    English

    (wikipedia midge)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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= 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.}}

    Derived terms

    * apple midge * biting midge * dung midge * gall midge * mackerel-midge * meniscus midge * midge cap * midge grass * midget * midgie * mountain midge * net-winged midge * non-biting midge * pear midge * phantom midge * solitary midge * wheat-midge