fudge
see also: Fudge
Pronunciation Noun

fudge

  1. (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge.
    Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!
  2. (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
  3. (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
  4. (uncountable, dated) A made-up story.
    Synonyms: nonsense, humbug, Thesaurus:nonsense
  5. (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
Translations Translations Translations
  • German: Ausweichen, Herumreden, Schaumschlägerei
  • Russian: вздор
Translations Translations Verb

fudge (fudges, present participle fudging; past and past participle fudged)

  1. (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
    Synonyms: waffle, equivocate, hedge
    When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
  2. (transitive) 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.
    Do you fudge your age?
  3. (dated, ambitransitive) To botch or bungle something.
  4. To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
    Synonyms: cheat, Thesaurus:deceive
Translations Translations Interjection
  1. (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
  2. (colloquial, archaic) Nonsense; tommyrot.
Translations
Fudge
Proper noun
  1. Surname



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