An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
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
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 7545th 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
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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