English Explanatory Dictionary

fudge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
intj
  1. Used in place of fuck.
  2. Nonsense; tommyrot.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/fʌd͡ʒ/ en-us-fudge.ogg /fʊd͡ʒ/

Word forms

fudge fudges fudging fudged

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

nonsense humbug absurdity all my eye all my eye and Betty Martin applesauce bafflegab balderdash balls baloney banana oil Bandini baragouin batcrap batshit bilgewater blah blather blatherskite bobbins bollocks bosh BS bull bullcrap bulldust bull feathers bullshit bullspeak bunk bunkum bushwah clamjamfrey claptrap cobblers codswallop crap crock crock of shit double Dutch double talk doublespeak dribble drivel eyewash fiddle-faddle flapdoodle flim-flam flizz flummery folderol foolishness footle framis fuckery fuckry fudge galimatias Gallophone garbage

Derived words

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

Translations

Bulgarian: мек бонбон Catalan: caramel Dutch: karamel Finnish: fudge French: fondant French: caramel French: fudge German: Fondant German: Buttertoffee Japanese: ファッジ Korean: 퍼지 Māori: whāti Marathi: फज Persian: اریس Polish: krówka Russian: ири́с Russian: ири́ска Spanish: manjar Spanish: dulce Spanish: ate Spanish: ganache Spanish: fudge Spanish: foch Swedish: mjuk kola Yiddish: פֿאָדזש
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