fadge

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried. Ireland
  2. A farthing (old coin). UK,archaic,slang
    — "Here's a fadge (farthing) or a button," I said, taking my pocket knife and cutting a few of the stitches holding the cloth and lining together, […]
  3. A vagina. UK,slang,vulgar
  4. A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic. New-Zealand
  5. A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough. Geordie
  6. A gait of horses between a jog and a trot. Yorkshire
动词 v.
  1. To be suitable (with or to something). intransitive,obsolete
    — 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. To agree, to get along (with). intransitive,obsolete
    — They shall be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together.
  3. To get on well; to cope, to thrive. intransitive,obsolete
    — 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. To eat together. Geordie
  5. To move with a gait between a jog and a trot. Yorkshire

词形变化

fadges present,singular,third-person fadging participle,present fadged participle,past fadged past fadges plural fadges plural fadges plural

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Uncertain, but potentially from or related to Old English faċġ (“flat-fish, plaice, flounder”).
词源 3
Abbreviation.
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