FUDGE

fudge

(noun) soft creamy candy

hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep

(verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); “He dodged the issue”; “she skirted the problem”; “They tend to evade their responsibilities”; “he evaded the questions skillfully”

fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent

(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception; “Fudge the figures”; “cook the books”; “falsify the data”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

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. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge.

(uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.

(countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.

(uncountable, dated) A made-up story.

Synonyms: nonsense, humbug, Thesaurus:nonsense

(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)

(intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.

Synonyms: waffle, equivocate, hedge

(transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral.

(dated, ambitransitive) To botch or bungle something.

To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.

Synonyms: cheat, Thesaurus:deceive

Interjection

fudge

(colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.

(colloquial, archaic) Nonsense; tommyrot.

Etymology

Proper noun

Fudge (plural Fudges)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Fudge is the 7545^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4407 individuals. Fudge is most common among White (63.31%) and Black/African American (30.95%) individuals.

Source: Wiktionary

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Fudge, n. Etym: [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt.]

Definition: A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

Fudge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fudged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fudging.]

1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax.

2. To foist; to interpolate. That last "suppose" is fudged in. Foote .

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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