fudge
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fudge (countable and uncountable; plural fudges)
- (chiefly uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
- (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!
- (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- (uncountable, dated) A made-up story; nonsense; humbug.
- (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
Translations[edit]
a very sweet confection
deliberately misleading or vague answer
Verb[edit]
fudge (third-person singular simple present fudges, present participle fudging, simple past and past participle fudged)
- (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.
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
To try to avoid giving a direct answer
To alter something from its true state
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Interjection[edit]
fudge
- (euphemistic) Colloquially, used in place of fuck.
- Oh, fudge!
Translations[edit]
euphemism for "fuck!"
