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Fudge

//fʌd͡ʒ// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Used in place of fuck. colloquial

    "Fudge! if you had such a fine instinct, why did you let us go to Transome Court and make fools of ourselves?"

  2. 2
    Nonsense; tommyrot. archaic, colloquial

    "Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. uncountable

    "Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!"

  2. 2
    soft creamy candy wordnet
  3. 3
    A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.; Chocolate fudge. US, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Light or frothy nonsense. uncountable
  5. 5
    A deliberately misleading or vague answer. countable
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  1. 6
    A made-up story. dated, uncountable
  2. 7
    A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact. countable
  3. 8
    Fecal matter; feces. countable, euphemistic, slang, uncountable

    "Here comes the fudge!"

Verb
  1. 1
    To try to avoid giving a direct answer. intransitive

    "When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged."

  2. 2
    avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) wordnet
  3. 3
    To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally. transitive

    "The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged."

  4. 4
    tamper, with the purpose of deception wordnet
  5. 5
    To botch or bungle something. ambitransitive, dated
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  1. 6
    To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
  2. 7
    Used in place of fuck. colloquial

    "Check yo' ass, or I'll fudge you up, mach schnell!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.

Etymology 2

Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.

Etymology 3

Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.

Etymology 4

From the Middle English surname, diminutive of Fulcher.

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