Definition of FUDGE

fudge

Plural: fudges

Noun

  • soft creamy candy
  • A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
  • A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
  • Chocolate fudge.
  • Light or frothy nonsense.
  • A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
  • A made-up story.
  • A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
  • Fecal matter; feces.

Verb

Verb Forms: fudged, fudging, fudges

  • To falsify or adjust in order to deceive.
  • tamper, with the purpose of deception
    • "Fudge the figures"
  • avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  • To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
  • To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
  • To botch or bungle something.
  • To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.

Intj

  • Used in place of fuck.
  • Nonsense; tommyrot.

Examples

  • Do you fudge your age?
  • Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!
  • He tried to fudge the rules on blank tile usage, but the official caught him.
  • Here comes the fudge!
  • I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.
  • The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged.
  • When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

circumvent, cook, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fake, falsify, hedge, manipulate, misrepresent, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt, wangle, BS, Bandini, Eartha, Eartha Kitt, Greek, Irish bull, absurdity, abuse, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, boo-boo, boom-boom, bosh, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, caca, cack, cheat, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, counterfeit, crap, crock, crock of shit, crud, danna, deceive, dejection, dirt, dissemble, dissimulate, do do, doo-doo, doody, dook, dookie, dooky, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, droppings, dump, dumplings, dung, equivocate, excrement, eyewash, faeces, faex, fecal matter, feces, feign, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flop, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gong, gossip, guano, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, ish, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jiff, jimjam, jive, jobby, junk, lallation, log, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, merd, moonshine, muck, mumbo jumbo, nature, nertz, night soil, nonsense, number two, ordure, overreach, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poo, poo-poo, pooh, poop, poopie, poopy, poppycock, prattle, pure, purging, put on, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, scat, sham, sharn, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, soil, spoof, squit, stool, stuff, stuff and nonsense, thost, tom tit, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, trick, tripe, turd, tush, twaddle, waffle, wass, waste, whiff-whaff, word salad

Scrabble Score: 10

fudge: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fudge: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fudge: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

fudge: valid Words With Friends Word