fudge
/fʌd͡ʒ/
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Northern England/fʊd͡ʒ/
fudge noun: a type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
Noun
fudge (countable and uncountable, plural fudges)
- A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
- Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!
- Chocolate fudge.
- Light or frothy nonsense.
- A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- A made-up story.
- Synonyms:
- nonsense, humbug, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls
- The stop press portion of a newspaper.
- 'That is all, sir—no, here is something more about it in the "fudge".'
Greatorex rearranged the paper to display the 'Stop Press' space and read on.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
- 'That is all, sir—no, here is something more about it in the "fudge".'
- A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
- Fecal matter; feces.
- Here comes the fudge!
- Synonyms:
- boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crap, crud
Verb
fudge (third-person singular simple present fudges, present participle fudging, simple past and past participle fudged)
- To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
- When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
- Synonyms:
- waffle, equivocate, hedge
- To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
- The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged.
- I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.
- To botch or bungle something.
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- Synonyms:
- cheat, abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, catch, trap into, dissemble, dissimulate, feign
- Used in place of fuck.
- Check yo' ass, or I'll fudge you up, mach schnell!2000 January 21, Jesse Friedman, “get your wu-name now...”, in alt.music.ween (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025
- I thought so. And they say I have a bad memory.... Fudge em.2001 September 20, Aerogram, “Things That Irritate A Sane Person”, in alt.worst.of.usenet (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025
Interjection
fudge
- Used in place of fuck.
- Fudge! if you had such a fine instinct, why did you let us go to Transome Court and make fools of ourselves?1866, George Eliot, Felix Holt
- Pearl had to go home. Mike was one of the last of the good guys, so he said he'd run her on home. All Robert could say was, "Ah, fudge."1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer
- Nonsense; tommyrot.
- Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me.1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch
Proper noun capitalized: Fudge
Fudge (plural Fudges)
- A surname.
fudge meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
fudge in Tamil
- ஒட்டவைத்தப் பகுதி, சாக்லேட் சேர்த்த இனிப்பு, ஊடகக் கடைசிச் செய்திக்கான இடம்
fudge in Marathi
- a very sweet confection
- फज phaj
fudge in Urdu
- بددیانتی کرنا, دھوکا دینا, گھڑنا, جل دینا
fudge in Malayalam
- avoid, evade, dodge
- കൃത്രിമം കാണിക്കുക, ഒഴിഞ്ഞുമാറുക, തന്ത്രപൂർവ്വം മാറിക്കളയുക, ഒഴിഞ്ഞുകൊള്ളുക, മറുപടി പറയാതെ ഒഴിയുക, വക്രോക്തി പ്രയോഗിക്കുക
- manipulate, adjust, massage
- വെട്ടിപ്പുനടത്തുക, കണക്കിലൊപ്പിക്കുക, ഒപ്പിക്കുക, ഒപ്പിച്ചുവയ്ക്കുക, തെറ്റിദ്ധരിപ്പിക്കുക, തെറ്റായി ബോധിപ്പിക്കുക
- compromise, cover-up, spin
- ഒത്തുതീർപ്പ്, സാഹചര്യങ്ങൾ മറച്ചുവയ്ക്കൽ, വിതണ്ഡാവാദം, സത്യാനൃതം, വാദത്തിനുവേണ്ടിയുള്ള വാദം, അപ്രസക്തങ്ങളായ തർക്കങ്ങൾ ഉയർത്തൽ
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- fudge in Kannada
- ಕಟ್ಟುಕತೆ, ಬುರುಡೆ, ಬೊಗಳೆ, ಪೊಳ್ಳು
- fudge in Persian
- اریس eris
Examples of fudge in a sentence
- Do you fudge your age?
- "Who the fudge are you?" ("Fudge" is not the word he uses but you get the idea.) / We say, "We're with CNN." / "I don't like the fudging media," is his reply.2002 March 15, Martin Savidge, “An uphill battle”, in CNN.com, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2002:
- Fudge, I made her a giant, Sabrina thought to herself […]2006, Michael Buckley, chapter 9, in The Problem Child (The Sisters Grimm; 3), New York, N.Y.: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 235:
Synonyms of fudge
- nonsense
- humbug
- absurdity
- all my eye
- all my eye and Betty Martin
- bafflegab
- balderdash
- balls
- baloney
- Bandini
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Forms of fudge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fudges |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fudges |
| present participle | fudging |
| past participle | fudged |
| past | fudged |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Fudges |
Origin of fudge
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.
Words formed from fudge
- every good boy deserves fudge
- fudgebag
- fudge box
- fudge cake
- fudge dragon
- fudge factor
- fudge it
- fudgelike
- fudge-nudger
- fudge packer
- fudge packing
- fudge the issue
- fudge tunnel
- fudgsicle
- fudgy
- good boys deserve fudge always
- holy fudge
- hot fudge
- like fudge
- pack fudge
- what the fudge
- fudge together
- fudger
- fudge wheel
- unfudged
- fudgeable
Phrases with fudge
Words that rhyme with fudge
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Questions about fudge
- What does fudge mean?
- Fudge means a type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
- What is fudge in Tamil?
- Fudge in Tamil is ஒட்டவைத்தப் பகுதி, சாக்லேட் சேர்த்த இனிப்பு, ஊடகக் கடைசிச் செய்திக்கான இடம். See Fudge meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use fudge in a sentence?
- Do you fudge your age?
- What part of speech is fudge?
- Fudge can be a noun, a verb, an interjection or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce fudge?
- Fudge is pronounced /fʌd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of fudge?
- The plural of fudge is fudges.
Words near fudge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fudge (page history and authors); Fudge (page history and authors); fudge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fudge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fudge (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); fudge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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