fadge
Definitions
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- verb To be suitable (with or to something).
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- verb To suit; fit; come close, as the parts of things united; hence, to have one part consistent with another.
- verb To agree; live in amity.
- verb To succeed; turn out well.
- verb To beat or thrash.
- noun A large flat loaf or bannock, commonly of barley-meal, baked among ashes.
Examples
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"There's your fish for you," she said, "and fadge and oaten farles, and if you want more you'd better show some civility to the woman that does for you."
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In truth, however, I suspect the Poet was not very attentive to the point of making the events of the several plays fadge together.
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Annies: one tall as the other is short: both capital in Head and Heart: I knew they would _fadge_ well: so they did: so we all did, waiting on ourselves and on one another.
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Ulster fadge works with smoked salmon even better than bagels, complementing the silky smooth cuts of smokey pink fish with the sturdy potato-cake base, the dill crème fraiche making light of it all.
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Tuscan adjectives I could find in my memory or my Crusca: but, alack! when I came to range them, they did not fadge at all; they neither expressed what I would say, nor half what I would say, and so I gave it all up, and am reduced to beg you would say it all for me; and make as many excuses and as many thanks for me as you can, between your receiving this, and your next going to bully Richcourt, or whisper Count Lorenzi.
Note
The etymology of most of the sense of 'fadge' is largely uncertain.
