different between fade vs fadge

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”).

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative fadest)

1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.

   Synonym: dull

   • 1825, Francis Jeffery, review of Theodric by Thomas Campbell

     Passages that are somewhat fade.

   • 1827, Thomas De Quincey, The Last Days of Kant (published in Blackwood's Magazine)

     His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.

Translations

Noun

fade (plural fades)

1. (golf) A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).

   Coordinate terms: slice, hook, draw

   • 2011, James Lythgoe, The Golf Swing: It's all in the hands (page 88)

     If you confine yourself to hitting straight shots while you are developing your golf swing, you are less likely to develop a preference for hitting a fade or a draw.

2. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
3. (slang) A fight.
4. (music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
5. (slang) The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     Ace could have done a fade. Instead, he gathered all his courage — which was not inconsiderable, even in his middle age — and went to see the Flying Corson Brothers.

Derived terms

• brake fade

Translations

Verb

fade (third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)

1. (transitive, golf) To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
   • 2011, Gary McCord, Golf For Dummies (page 284)

     The Golden Bear faded the ball from left to right with great consistency, so he seldom had to worry about trouble on the left.

2. (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

   • The earth mourneth and fadeth away.

3. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
4. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

   The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.

   • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI,

     A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.

   • They say your love will surely fade girl
     When things go wrong and trouble calls

5. (transitive) To cause to fade.
6. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.

Synonyms

• (grow weak, lose strength): weaken, wither
• (lose freshness, color, or brightness): blanch, bleach
• (sink away): decrease, diminish, wane

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fade, fede, of uncertain origin. Compare Old English ?efæd (“orderly, tidy, discreet, well-regulated”). See also fad.

Adjective

fade (comparative fader or more fade, superlative fadest or most fade)

1. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.

Anagrams

• Deaf, EDFA, deaf

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?d?

Adjective

fade

1. definite of fad
2. plural of fad

Noun

fade n

1. indefinite plural of fad

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish fader (“father”)

Noun

fade

1. (slang) father

Declension

Synonyms

• isä (standard)

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fatidus, blend of Latin fatuus and vapidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fad/

Adjective

fade (plural fades)

1. tasteless, insipid
2. boring; lukewarm

Synonyms

• (lacking in interesting features): terne, insignifiant

Noun

fade m (plural fades)

1. (criminal slang) share of loot / booty

Verb

fade

1. inflection of fader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “fade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Alternative forms

• fad (particularly in southern Germany and Austria)

Etymology

From French fade, from Vulgar Latin fatidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?d?/
• Homophone: Pfade (only according to a regional pronunciation of this word)
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative am fadesten or am fadsten)

1. bland, flavorless, stale, boring
   • 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag

Declension

Further reading

• “fade” in Duden online
• “fade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Yola

Pronoun

fade

1. Alternative form of faade

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN, page 23

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæd?/
• Rhymes: -æd?

Etymology 1

Unknown. According to Chambers, from Old English fegan (“to join or fit together”); Liberman suggests a Middle English variant of fagot (“bundle of sticks”).

Verb

fadge (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).
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
4. (Tyneside) To eat together.
5. (Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.

Etymology 2

Etymology uncertain, but potentially from or related to Old English fa?? (“flat-fish, plaice, flounder”).

Noun

fadge (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.

References

• fadge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Chambers, William (1893): Chambers's English Dictionary, Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Etymological, with Vocabularies of Scottish Words and Phrases, Americanisms
• Liberman, Anatoly: An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction