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Definition of Fadge
1. v. i. To fit; to suit; to agree.
2. n. A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.
Definition of Fadge
1. Verb. (context: obsolete intransitive) To be suitable ((term with) or (term to) something). ¹
2. Verb. (context: obsolete intransitive) To agree, to get along ((term with)). ¹
3. Verb. (context: obsolete intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive. ¹
4. Verb. (Geordie) To eat together. ¹
5. Verb. (Yorkshire of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot. ¹
6. Noun. (qualifier Ulster) Irish potato bread - flat farls, griddle-baked. Often served fried. ¹
7. Noun. (New Zealand) A wool pack. traditionally made of jute now often synthetic. ¹
8. Noun. (Geordie) Small bread loaf or bun made with left-over dough. ¹
9. Noun. (Yorkshire) A gait of horses between a jog and a trot. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fadge
1. to succeed [v FADGED, FADGING, FADGES] - See also: succeed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fadge
Literary usage of Fadge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"author, both here and in the Netherlands. doth nerer fadge to well—as in t
youthful, wanton, and unbridled subject. Face« to the rieht. Faces to the left. ..."
2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"fadge, to turn out, succeed. (E.) ME fangen* (not found). ... Allied to fadge.
(i/ PAK.) fawn (i), to cringe to, rejoice servilely over. (Scand. ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1847)
"fadge.—" Viola. How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly, And I, poor
monster, fond as much on him." Twelfth Night, ii., 2. ..."
4. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"the open space in which the church stands. Ancr. Riwle, p. 318. fadge, sb. 1.
A bundle, a burden in which thickness predominates over length, 2. ..."
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