To suit or fit together, as, It wonʹt fadge; we cannot fadge together; he does not fadge with me. (Anglo-Saxon, fœgen, to fit together; Welsh, ffag, what tends to unite.)
“How will this fadge?”
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, ii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.