What does "fudge" mean?

A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

What is a synonym for "fudge"?

Common synonyms include: absurdity, adjustment, amphigory, applesauce, babble, babblement.

/fʌd͡ʒ/ intj, name, noun, verb, slang

intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level

Noun

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!"

Verb

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!"

Intj

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."

Proper Noun

"Fudge is not at all healthy, but it sure is amazingly tasty."

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

From the Middle English surname, diminutive of Fulcher.