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Meaning of FADGE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Fadge\, v. i. [Cf. OE. faden to flatter, and AS. f?gan to
    join, unit, G. f["u]gen, or AS. [=a]f[ae]gian to depict; all
    perh. form the same root as E. fair. Cf. {Fair}, a., {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.
    
  2. \Fadge\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
    A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Halliwell.
    
 

 

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