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Webster 1913 Edition


Fadge

Fadge

(făj)
,
Verb.
I.
[Cf. OE.
faden
to flatter, and AS.
fēgan
to join, unite, G.
fügen
, or AS.
āfægian
to depict; all perh. form the same root as E.
fair
. Cf.
Fair
,
Adj.
,
Fay
to fit.]
To fit; to suit; to agree.
They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to
fadge
together.
Milton.
Well, Sir, how
fadges
the new design ?
Wycherley.

Fadge

,
Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fadge

FADGE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. pango, pegi, pepegi, figo; Gr.]
1.
To suit; to fit; to come close, as the parts of things united. Hence, to have one part consistent with another.
2.
To agree; to live in amity.
3.
To succeed; to hit.
[This word is now vulgar, and improper in elegant writing.]