Fadge

/fæd͡ʒ/ · verb

Meaning

(obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something).
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
4. (Geordie) To eat together.
5. (Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
6. (Ireland) Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
7. (New Zealand) A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
8. (Geordie) A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough.

Example Sentences

Well, Sir, how fadges the new deſign; have you not the luck of all your Brother Projectors, to deceive only your ſelf at laſt?

They shall be made, spight 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.

"Here's a fadge (farthing) or a button," I said, taking my pocket knife and cutting a few of the stitches holding the cloth and lining together, […]

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• fadges
• fadging
• fadged

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