Fudgy

adj

adj ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture.

    "FOR cooks of a lemon-loving persuasion, a puckery citrus curd is the culinary analogue of a chocolate fanatic’s fudgy ganache."

  2. 2
    Fuzzy, imprecise. figuratively

    "The hundred years after Euler represented a period in which functions not satisfying his "official" constraints were frequently smuggled into mathematics through fudgy considerations involving infinite series expansions and the like."

  3. 3
    Irritable. archaic
  4. 4
    Awkward. archaic

Example

More examples

"Tom likes fudgy brownies, but Mary likes them cakey."

Etymology

From fudge + -y.

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