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fudge

Pronunciation: /fʌd͡ʒ/

The English word “fudge” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
  2. Chocolate fudge.
  3. Light or frothy nonsense.
  4. A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
  5. A made-up story.
  6. The stop press portion of a newspaper.
  7. A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
  8. Fecal matter; feces.

verb

  1. To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
  2. To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
  3. To botch or bungle something.
  4. To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
  5. Used in place of fuck.

interjection

  1. Nonsense; tommyrot.

Etymology

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

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