Sc. Also ? 6 fage. A large flat loaf or bannock.
a. 1609. trans. Iter Camerarii, ix. in Skene, Reg. Maj. (1609), 150 b. All kindes of bread … that is, ane fage [L. quachetum] symmell, wastell … and bread of trayt. [The older text of the translation (Record ed.) omits the equivalent of quachetum.]
1719. Ramsay, Ep. Hamilton, II. iii.
| A Glasgow capon and a fadge | |
| Ye thought a feast. |
a. 1774. Fergusson, Farmer’s Ingle, Poems (1845), 38.
| A crum | |
| O’ kebbuck whang’d, and dainty fadge, to pree. |
1808. in Jamieson.
1845. New Statist. Acc. Scot., Berwickshire, 77. Cakes … of barley meal, baked to a great thickness and called fadges.
