Fudge
intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 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 soft creamy candy wordnet
- 3 A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.; Chocolate fudge. US, countable, uncountable
- 4 Light or frothy nonsense. uncountable
- 5 A deliberately misleading or vague answer. countable
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- 6 A made-up story. dated, uncountable
- 7 A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact. countable
- 8 Fecal matter; feces. countable, euphemistic, slang, uncountable
"Here comes the fudge!"
- 1 To try to avoid giving a direct answer. intransitive
"When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged."
- 2 avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) wordnet
- 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 tamper, with the purpose of deception wordnet
- 5 To botch or bungle something. ambitransitive, dated
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- 6 To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- 7 Used in place of fuck. colloquial
"Check yo' ass, or I'll fudge you up, mach schnell!"
- 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 Nonsense; tommyrot. archaic, colloquial
"Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"Fudge is not at all healthy, but it sure is amazingly tasty."
Etymology
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
From the Middle English surname, diminutive of Fulcher.
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