fadge
/fæd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Well, Sir, how fadges the new deſign; have you not the luck of all your Brother Projectors, to deceive only your ſelf at laſt?"
- "They shall be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together."
- "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."
- ""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, […]"
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”).
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: fēġan, -, feċġan
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.