fudge.
A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
Meaning & usage
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!
A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. Chocolate fudge.
Light or frothy nonsense.
A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
A made-up story.
The stop press portion of a newspaper.
A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
Fecal matter; feces.
Here comes the fudge!
Where this word comes from
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
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, 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.
To botch or bungle something.
To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
Used in place of fuck.
Where this word comes from
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
Used in place of fuck.
Nonsense; tommyrot.
Where this word comes from
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
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