Fidged vs Fadged - What's the difference?
fidged | fadged |
(fidge)
(obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
(fadge)
(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 verbs the difference between fidged and fadged
is that fidged is past tense of fidge while fadged is past tense of fadge.fidged
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Verb
(head)fidge
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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..."
fadged
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Verb
(head)fadge
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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.
