Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bundle; a fagot.
- noun A covering of undressed leather inclosing a bundle of patent or other valuable leather.
- noun A large flat loaf or bannock, commonly of barley-meal, baked among ashes.
- noun A fat, clumsy person.
- To beat or thrash.
- To suit; fit; come close, as the parts of things united; hence, to have one part consistent with another.
- To agree; live in amity.
- To succeed; turn out well.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.
- intransitive verb To fit; to suit; to agree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, intransitive To be
suitable (with orto something). - verb obsolete, intransitive To
agree , to get along (with ). - verb obsolete, intransitive To get on well; to
cope , tothrive . - verb Geordie To
eat together. - verb Yorkshire, of a horse To move with a
gait between ajog and atrot . - noun Ulster Irish
potato bread - flatfarls , griddle-baked. Often served fried. - noun New Zealand A wool pack. traditionally made of jute now often synthetic.
- noun Geordie Small bread loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
- noun Yorkshire A
gait of horses between ajog and atrot .
Etymologies
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Examples
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‘I am afraid,’ said I, ‘any new adventures which I can invent will not fadge well with the old tale; one will but spoil the other.’
Lavengro 2004
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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."
The Northern Iron George A. Birmingham 1907
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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.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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Let such new practices as are to be brought into our Church be for a time candidates and probationers on their good behaviour, to see how the temper of the people will fit them, and they fadge with it, before they be publicly enjoined.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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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.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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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.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846
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O 'kebbuck [50] whang'd, an' dainty fadge [51] to prie; [52]
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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O 'kebbuck [50] whang'd, an' dainty fadge [51] to prie; [52]
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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I, "any new adventures which I can invent will not fadge well with the old tale; one will but spoil the other."
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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I, 'any new adventures which I can invent will not fadge well with the old tale; one will but spoil the other.'
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
minerva commented on the word fadge
Also to fit, suit, agree.
January 14, 2008
minerva commented on the word fadge
They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. --Milton.
January 14, 2008
gangerh commented on the word fadge
Used in Yorkshire to mean a short fat individual. Also the verb 'to fadge' meaning to walk at a short straddling pace, like a fat or encumbered person. 'He goes fadging along'. See also fudgeon.
April 12, 2008
yarb commented on the word fadge
A (short, fat) character in the novel New Grub Street, if I remember right.
What's the word for this Dickensian naming of characters to express characteristics? Fadge - it just sounds like (and now, I find, means) what the character is.
April 14, 2008
qms commented on the word fadge
A very versatile word which can be, among other things, a verb describing a kind of complementary blending -
or it can be noun naming a kind of rustic loaf of bread -
Or a short fat person -
It can mean a lot of other things but I have run out of rhymes.
January 7, 2017