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fudgey

fudgey is the alternative form of fudgy.

Meaning of fudgy

Adjective

fudgy (comparative fudgier, superlative fudgiest)

  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.2007 April 18, Melissa Clark, “Silky, Sweet and Tart, a Triple Threat”, in New York Times
  2. (figuratively) Fuzzy, imprecise.
    • 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.1993, Steven J. Wagner, Richard Wagner, Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, page 72
  3. (archaic) Irritable.
  4. (archaic) Awkward.

Forms of fudgey

comparativefudgier
superlativefudgiest

Questions about fudgey

What is fudgey the alternative form of?
Fudgey is the alternative form of fudgy.

Words near fudgey in the dictionary

  1. fudges
  2. fudges the issue
  3. fudges together
  4. fudgesicle
  5. fudgesicles
  6. fudgey
  7. fudgicle
  8. fudgicles
  9. fudgie
  10. fudgier
  11. fudgies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fudgey (page history and authors); fudgy (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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