fadge

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Verb

fadge (third-person singular simple present fadges, present participle fadging, simple past and past participle fadged)

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.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.17:

     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.

4. (Geordie) To eat together.
5. (Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.

Etymology 2

Etymology uncertain.

Noun

fadge (plural fadges)

1. (Ulster) Irish potato bread - flat farls, griddle-baked. Often served fried.
2. (New Zealand) A wool pack. traditionally made of jute now often synthetic.
3. (Geordie) Small bread loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
4. (Yorkshire) A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.

References

• fadge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4[3]