fudge
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See also: Fudge
Etymology
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
- Here comes the fudge!
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:feces
Derived terms
Translations
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
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?
- (dated, transitive, intransitive) To botch or bungle something.
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- Synonyms: cheat; see also Thesaurus:deceive
Derived terms
Translations
To try to avoid giving a direct answer
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Interjection
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?
- (colloquial, archaic) Nonsense; tommyrot.
- 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch:
- Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me.
Translations
Further reading
fudge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fudge
- fudge (type of confection)
Declension
| 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. | ||
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See also
Further reading
- “fudge”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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