Brewer's: Fadge

(1 syl.). To suit or fit together, as, It won't fadge; we cannot fadge together; he does not fadge with me. (Anglo-Saxon, fægen, to fit together; Welsh, ffag, what tends to unite.)

“How will this fadge?”

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, ii. 2.

Fadge

A farthing. A corrupt contraction of fardingal, i.e. farthingale. (See Chivy.)

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