fadge

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It seemed so undefined in its application, that he was reminded of the old saying among sailors when they fall in with any indescribable thing at sea, that it was a "fidge-fadge, to pry the sun up with in cloudy weather."

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  1. To suit; fit; come close, as the parts of things united; hence, to have one part consistent with another. [Obsolete or provincial.] How will this fadge? Shak., T. N., ii. 2. How ill his shape with inward forme doth fadge! Marston, Scourge of Villanie, i. Clothes I must get; this fashion will not fadge with me. Fletcher, Wit without Money, iii. 4.
  2. To agree; live in amity. Yet they shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomeness, and dispair of all sociable delight in the ordinance which God establish'd to that very end. Milton, Divorce, Pref.
  3. To succeed; turn out well. We will have, if this fadge not, an antic. I beseech you follow. Shak., L. L. L., v. 1. Though now, if gold but lacke in graines, The wedding fadgeth not. Warner, Albion's England, iv. 29. But the Ethiopian Priest first enters, without whom, they say, the miracle will not fadge. Sandys, Travailes, p. 134.
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  1. Origin unknown; it is difficult to connect it phonetically with Anglo-Saxon fēgan, join; this word produced Middle English fegen, feyen, feien, modern English fay, q. v. (but cf. hedge as related to hay). Fadge is not found earlier than the 16th century, and is rare in literature.
  2. English dial, and Scots; origin not clear; it is difficult to connect the form with that of fagot. Cf. fad.
  3. English dial, and Scots; origin not clear; perhaps connected with fadge, a bundle.
  4. Scots, variant of fodge, q. v.
  5. Cf. feeze, feaze.
 

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