fadge

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ædʒ

Etymology 1

Unknown. According to Chambers, from Old English fegan (“to join or fit together”); Liberman suggests a Middle English variant of fagot (“bundle of sticks”).

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something).
   • 1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii, page 45:

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

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
   • Milton

     They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together.

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
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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, but potentially from or related to Old English faċġ (“flat-fish, plaice, flounder”).

Noun

fadge (plural fadges)

1. (Ireland) Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
2. (New Zealand) A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
3. (Geordie) A small 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• 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
• Chambers, William (1893): Chambers's English Dictionary, Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Etymological, with Vocabularies of Scottish Words and Phrases, Americanisms
• Liberman, Anatoly: An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction