fudge

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
2. (US, countable, uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
3. (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
4. (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
5. (dated, uncountable) A made-up story.
6. (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
7. (countable, euphemistic, slang, uncountable) Fecal matter; feces.

Verb

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

Intj

1. (colloquial) Used in place of fuck.
2. (archaic, colloquial) Nonsense; tommyrot.

Synonyms

fake

hedge

misrepresent

evade

falsify

dodge

circumvent

wangle

cheat

manipulate

cook

🧑‍🍳

parry

put off

sidestep

skirt

bosh

duck

🦆

humbug

elude

prattle

rig

rigmarole

shun

slant

stack

story

tamper

toffee

twaddle

vamp up

doctor up

charlotte russe

make alterations

adjust

prittle prattle

adulterate

babble

beat around the bush

counterfeit

debase

deceit

doctor

🧑‍⚕️

drivel

equivocate

eschew

fabricate

fairy tale

fend off

fit

impostor

Translations

dulce de azúcar

falsificar

caramel

scansare

Fälschung

evadir

falsare

falsificare

caramella fondente

Blödsinn

éviter

falsifier

knoeien

vervalsen

eludere

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fʌd͡ʒ/

Etymology

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