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fudge

 Play fudge
A plate of chocolate fudge candy.

A plate of chocolate fudge candy.

interjection
  1. Fudge is defined as an expression of frustration, sometimes used in place of a curse word.

    When you slam your finger in a drawer, this is an example of a time when you might yell "fudge!"

noun
  1. The definition of fudge is rich chocolate or a soft, creamy candy made with sugar, butter and cream, or fudge also means foolish talk.

    1. A rich chocolate sauce that you put on top of ice cream is an example of fudge.
    2. A soft, creamy candy is an example of fudge.
    3. A lie that you make up is an example of a fudge.

verb
  1. To fudge means to manipulate or conceal the truth.

    When you create fake financial information to hide your losses, this is an example of a situation where you fudge the numbers.


fudge

  1. empty, foolish talk; nonsense
  2. Origin of fudge

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    1. a soft candy made of butter, milk, sugar, and chocolate or other flavoring, etc.
    2. a rich, sweet chocolate sauce used as a topping for ice cream or as an ingredient in cakes and cookies: usually used attributively: a fudge sundae
  3. Printing a short piece of last-minute news or other matter inserted in a newspaper page
  4. the act or an instance of fudging

Origin of fudge

uncertain or unknown; perhaps echoic, as in German futsch, gone, ruined

transitive verb

fudged, fudg′ing
to make or put together dishonestly or carelessly; fake
  1. to refuse to commit oneself or give a direct answer; hedge: to fudge on an issue
  2. to be dishonest; cheat
Old-fashioned nonsense

fudge

noun

  1. a. A soft rich candy made of sugar, milk, butter, and chocolate or cocoa.
    b. A similar candy made with other flavorings: peanut butter fudge.
  2. Nonsense; humbug.

adjective

  1. Having a rich chocolate flavor.
  2. Having pieces of fudge candy as an ingredient.

verb

fudged, fudg·ing, fudg·es

verb

transitive
  1. To fake or falsify: fudge casualty figures.
  2. To evade (an issue, for example); dodge.

verb

intransitive
  1. To act in an indecisive manner: always fudged on the important questions.
  2. a. To go beyond the proper limits of something: fudged on the building code requirements.
    b. To act dishonestly; cheat.

Origin of fudge

Possibly alteration of fadge to fit


fudge

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural fudges)

  1. (chiefly uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
  2. (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge.
    Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!
  3. (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
  4. (uncountable, dated) A made-up story; nonsense; humbug.
  5. (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
Verb

(third-person singular simple present fudges, present participle fudging, simple past and past participle fudged)

  1. (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.
    When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
  2. To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral.
    The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged.
    I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.
Interjection
  1. (euphemistic) Colloquially, used in place of fuck.
    Oh, fudge!

Synonyms

 
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  • pack-fudge
  • fudgelike
  • fudge-cake
  • fudgy
  • fudging
  • fudge-dragons
  • fudge-wheels
  • fudging-the-issue

Words near fudge in the dictionary


  • fuddy-duddery
  • fuddy-duddies
  • fuddy-duddy
  • fuddyduddies
  • fudge
  • fudge-cake
  • fudge-dragon
  • fudge-dragons
  • fudge factor
  • fudge-factor

Synonyms

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  • blunder
  • bumble
  • bungle
  • flounder
  • candy

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