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noun
Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland
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noun
A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand
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noun
A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie
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noun
A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Yorkshire
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noun
A farthing (old coin).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, slang
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noun
A vagina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang, vulgar
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verb
To be suitable (with or to something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To agree, to get along (with).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To eat together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie
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verb
To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Yorkshire
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History
Uncertain, but potentially from or related to Old English faċġ (“flat-fish, plaice, flounder”).
Abbreviation.
Unknown. According to Chambers, from Old English fēġan (“to join or fit together”); Liberman suggests a Middle English variant of fagot (“bundle of sticks”). Compare also Old English feċġan (“to seize, take hold, bring to”).
