The Captive Heart
May. 25th, 2012 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyI think the rubber bands on my rubber band ball are perishing. They're so pretty, but perishing. So sad.
This week's random word is:
4. Fadge
This week I asked the random word generator for an uncommon verb and it obliged by giving me: to fadge. All righty then.
I have never knowingly fadged in my life. It's not a word I've ever said, or even suspected existed. It sounds slightly rude. But it isn't. According to the internet, which is never wrong, fadge is a little word that we make do quite a lot of work in the event that we use it at all. To fadge is an obsolete word meaning to be suitable, to succeed, to agree, to get along, to cope or to thrive. It is also a dialect word in different parts of the UK, meaning to eat together or for a horse to move with a gait between a jog and a trot. So you could put all those meanings together and say: Let's stop and fadge, because I just can't fadge when my horse fadges. I'm just not fadged with horse-riding.
But wait! It's not only a verb. Fadge also has a variety of uses as a noun as well. Around the world, it can mean the gait of horses between a job and a trot; an irregularly sized bale of wool; a bundle of leather, sticks or wool; a thing made of jute to pack wool in; a small bun made with dough left over from making a loaf of bread; and as alternative word for potato farls. So you can put them all with the verbs we just learnt and say: Let's stop here and fadge the fadge and the fadge that I brought with me. I just can't fadge when my horse fadges. I'm just not fadged with horse-riding. I think I need to put a fadge under the saddle.'
I planned to make some potato fadge last night and post a photo of it to bring this entry to a triumphant finish, but, sadly, I didn't have any potatoes. So, I think you will fadge, I have definitely not fadged today.
Next week: Oops
This week's random word is:
4. Fadge
This week I asked the random word generator for an uncommon verb and it obliged by giving me: to fadge. All righty then.
I have never knowingly fadged in my life. It's not a word I've ever said, or even suspected existed. It sounds slightly rude. But it isn't. According to the internet, which is never wrong, fadge is a little word that we make do quite a lot of work in the event that we use it at all. To fadge is an obsolete word meaning to be suitable, to succeed, to agree, to get along, to cope or to thrive. It is also a dialect word in different parts of the UK, meaning to eat together or for a horse to move with a gait between a jog and a trot. So you could put all those meanings together and say: Let's stop and fadge, because I just can't fadge when my horse fadges. I'm just not fadged with horse-riding.
But wait! It's not only a verb. Fadge also has a variety of uses as a noun as well. Around the world, it can mean the gait of horses between a job and a trot; an irregularly sized bale of wool; a bundle of leather, sticks or wool; a thing made of jute to pack wool in; a small bun made with dough left over from making a loaf of bread; and as alternative word for potato farls. So you can put them all with the verbs we just learnt and say: Let's stop here and fadge the fadge and the fadge that I brought with me. I just can't fadge when my horse fadges. I'm just not fadged with horse-riding. I think I need to put a fadge under the saddle.'
I planned to make some potato fadge last night and post a photo of it to bring this entry to a triumphant finish, but, sadly, I didn't have any potatoes. So, I think you will fadge, I have definitely not fadged today.
Next week: Oops