E. Angl. dial. Also 5 kygge, kydge (? kyde), 9 kidge. [Of unknown etym.; cf. KEDGY, CADGY.] Brisk, lively; in good spirits.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 274/2. Kygge, or ioly (H. kydge, P. kyde), jocundus, hillaris, vernosus.
1674. Ray, S. & E. Countrey Words, 69. Kedge, brisk, budge, lively, Suff.
1801. Bloomfield, Rural T., Rich. & Kate, xxiv. I’m surely growing young again; I feel myself so kedge and plump.
1829. H. Murray, North America, II. III. iii. 367. Are his spirits kedge?
1856. in W. S. Simpson’s Life (1899), 30. I ain’t so well to-day as I was yesterday: I was quite kidge then.
