Definition of "fadge"

fadge¹

/fæd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present fadges, present participle fadging, simple past and past participle fadged
1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something).
  Quotations
  Well, Sir, how fadges the new deſign; have you not the luck of all your Brother Projectors, to deceive only your ſelf at laſt?
  1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […]; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, Act IV, scene iii, page 45
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
  Quotations
  They shall be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together.
  1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], book
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
  Quotations
  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.
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
4. (Tyneside) To eat together.
5. (Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.

fadge²

/fæd͡ʒ/

noun
plural fadges
1. (Ireland) Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
2. (New Zealand) A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
3. (Tyneside) A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
4. (Yorkshire) A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.

fadge³

/fæd͡ʒ/

noun
plural fadges
1. (UK, slang, archaic) A farthing (old coin).
  Quotations
  "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, […]
  1868, Thomas Wright, Johnny Robinson, page 173