fadge en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /fæd͡ʒ/
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Etymology
Unknown. According to Chambers, from Old English fēġan (“to join or fit together”); Liberman suggests a Middle English variant of fagot (“bundle of sticks”). Compare also Old English feċġan (“to seize, take hold, bring to”).
Meanings
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(intransitive, obsolete) To be suitable (with or to something).
Well, Sir, how fadges the new deſign; have you not the luck of all your Brother Projectors, to deceive only your ſelf at laſt?
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:
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(intransitive, obsolete) To agree, to get along (with).
They shall be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together.
1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
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(intransitive, obsolete) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
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.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- (Geordie) To eat together.
- (Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| fadged | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| fadged | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fadging | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| fadges | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |