fudge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʌdʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌdʒ

Noun

fudge (countable and uncountable, plural fudges)

1. (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!

2. (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
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

fudge (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

fudge

1. (minced oath) Colloquially, used in place of fuck.

   Oh, fudge!

Derived terms

• fudge factor
• fudge packer