dial. A short fat individual.

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a. 1765.  ‘Lord Thomas and Fair Annet,’ viii., in Child, Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ball. (1885) III. lxxiii. 182/2.

        And I sall hae nothing to mysell
Bot a fat fadge by the fyre.

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1876.  in C. C. Robinson, Mid-Yorksh. Gloss.

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