fudge
See also: Fudge
English
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Etymology
[edit]Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fudge (countable and uncountable, plural fudges)
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
- Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!
- (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
- (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- (uncountable, dated) A made-up story.
- Synonyms: nonsense, humbug; see also Thesaurus:nonsense
- (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:feces
- Here comes the fudge!
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a very sweet confection
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light or frothy nonsense
deliberately misleading or vague answer
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a made-up story; nonsense; humbug
a less than perfect decision or solution
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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.
- Synonyms: waffle, equivocate, hedge
- When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
- (transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
- 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?
- 2026 January 3, Melissa Heikkilä, “Lunch with the FT: Yann LeCun”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
- Llama 4, which was released in April 2025, was a flop, and the company was accused of gaming benchmarks to make it look more impressive. [Yann] LeCun admits that the “results were fudged a little bit”, and the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results.
- (dated, ambitransitive) To botch or bungle something.
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- Synonyms: cheat; see also Thesaurus:deceive
- (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
- 2000 January 21, Jesse Friedman, “get your wu-name now...”, in alt.music.ween[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
- Check yo' ass, or I'll fudge you up, mach schnell!
- 2001 September 20, Aerogram, “Things That Irritate A Sane Person”, in alt.worst.of.usenet[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
- I thought so. And they say I have a bad memory.... Fudge em.
- 2002 March 15, Martin Savidge, “An uphill battle”, in CNN.com[3], archived from the original on 2 June 2002:
- "Who the fudge are you?" ("Fudge" is not the word he uses but you get the idea.) / We say, "We're with CNN." / "I don't like the fudging media," is his reply. "Who are you supposed to be with?" (It's the first time he hasn't used the "fudge" word in a sentence.)
- 2002 September 13, T, “boy, i've never heard so many retards in my life!”, in alt.music.prince[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
- >>To what are you refering to exactly?.
>
>to how I fucked your mother
I cut her into pieces....... THEN I fudged her.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]To try to avoid giving a direct answer
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To alter something from its true state
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Interjection
[edit]fudge
- (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
- 1866, George Eliot, Felix Holt:
- Fudge! if you had such a fine instinct, why did you let us go to Transome Court and make fools of ourselves?
- 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
- Pearl had to go home. Mike was one of the last of the good guys, so he said he'd run her on home. All Robert could say was, "Ah, fudge."
- 2006, Michael Buckley, chapter 9, in The Problem Child (The Sisters Grimm; 3), New York, N.Y.: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 235:
- Sabrina was no longer in the witch’s grasp; in fact, she was staring directly at the woman’s crusty, corny feet. Fudge, I made her a giant, Sabrina thought to herself […]
- (colloquial, archaic) Nonsense; tommyrot.
- 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch:
- Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me.
Translations
[edit]euphemism for "fuck!"
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Further reading
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fudge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Fudge”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfudɡe/, [ˈfudɡe̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈfɑdʒ/, [ˈfɑ̝dʒ]
- Rhymes: -udɡe
- Syllabification(key): fud‧ge
- Hyphenation(key): fud‧ge
Noun
[edit]fudge
- fudge (type of confection)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of fudge (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | fudge | fudget | |
| genitive | fudgen | fudgejen | |
| partitive | fudgea | fudgeja | |
| illative | fudgeen | fudgeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | fudge | fudget | |
| accusative | nom. | fudge | fudget |
| gen. | fudgen | ||
| genitive | fudgen | fudgejen fudgein rare | |
| partitive | fudgea | fudgeja | |
| inessive | fudgessa | fudgeissa | |
| elative | fudgesta | fudgeista | |
| illative | fudgeen | fudgeihin | |
| adessive | fudgella | fudgeilla | |
| ablative | fudgelta | fudgeilta | |
| allative | fudgelle | fudgeille | |
| essive | fudgena | fudgeina | |
| translative | fudgeksi | fudgeiksi | |
| abessive | fudgetta | fudgeitta | |
| instructive | — | fudgein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “fudge”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
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