fudge

fudge

See also: Fudge

English

Fudge (candy).

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʌd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌdʒ

Noun

fudge (countable and uncountable, plural fudges)

1. (chiefly uncountable) 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!

   1. (US) Chocolate fudge.
2. (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
3. (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
4. (uncountable, dated) A made-up story.

   Synonyms: nonsense, humbug; see also Thesaurus:nonsense

5. (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
6. (euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.

   Here comes the fudge!

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:feces

Derived terms

• every good boy deserves fudge
• fudge box
• fudge cake
• fudge dragon
• fudge factor
• fudge it
• fudge packer
• fudge packing
• fudge the issue
• fudge tunnel
• holy fudge
• hot fudge
• pack fudge
• what the fudge

 

Translations

a very sweet confection

Bulgarian: мек бонбон m (mek bonbon) Catalan: caramel (ca) Dutch: karamel (nl) m Finnish: fudge (fi) French: fondant (fr) m, caramel (fr) m, fudge (fr) m German: Fondant (de) m, Buttertoffee n Japanese: ファッジ (fajji) Korean: 퍼지 (peoji) Maori: whāti Marathi: फज m (phaj) Persian: اریس‎ (fa) (eris) Polish: krówka (pl) f Russian: ири́с (ru) m (irís), ири́ска (ru) f (iríska) Spanish: manjar (es) m, dulce (es) m, ate (es) m (Mexico), ganache m Swedish: mjuk kola

light or frothy nonsense

Bulgarian: глупост (bg) f (glupost) Dutch: onzin (nl) m French: balivernes (fr) f pl German: Blödsinn (de) f Macedonian: глу́пост f (glúpost) Turkish: saçmalık (tr)

deliberately misleading or vague answer

Bulgarian: заблуждение (bg) n (zabluždenie), извъртане (bg) n (izvǎrtane) Dutch: jantje van leiden n French: échappatoire (fr) f German: Ausweichen (de) n, Herumreden n, Schaumschlägerei f Russian: вздор (ru) m (vzdor), вы́думка (ru) f (výdumka), чушь (ru) f (čušʹ), враньё (ru) n (vranʹjó) Turkish: taklit (tr)

a made-up story; nonsense; humbug

Bulgarian: измислица (bg) f (izmislica) Dutch: kwakkel (nl) m German: Fälschung (de) f, frisierte Geschichte f, Schwindel (de) m

a less than perfect decision or solution

Dutch: geknoei (nl) n, knoeierij (nl) m German: Pfusch (de) m, Pfuscherei (de) f Spanish: componenda (es) f

Verb

fudge (third-person singular simple present fudges, present participle fudging, simple past and past participle fudged)

1. (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.

   Synonyms: waffle, equivocate, hedge

   When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.

2. (transitive) 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.

   Do you fudge your age?

3. (dated, transitive, intransitive) To botch or bungle something.
4. To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.

   Synonyms: cheat; see also Thesaurus:deceive

Derived terms

• fudger
• fudge wheel

Translations

To try to avoid giving a direct answer

Bulgarian: извъртам (bg) (izvǎrtam) Chinese: Mandarin: 敷衍 (zh) (fūyǎn), 應付／应付 (zh) (yìngfu), 蒙混 (zh) (ménghùn) Dutch: ontwijken (nl) Finnish: vältellä (fi), kierrellä (fi) French: tourner autour du pot (fr) German: ausweichen (de) Portuguese: tergiversar (pt) Russian: уви́ливать (ru) impf (uvílivatʹ), увильну́ть (ru) pf (uvilʹnútʹ)

To alter something from its true state

Dutch: verdraaien (nl) Finnish: manipuloida (fi), muokata (fi), muuttaa (fi) French: trafiquer (fr) m, manipuler (fr) m German: frisieren (de), manipulieren (de) Spanish: manipular (es)

Interjection

fudge

1. (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
2. (colloquial, archaic) Nonsense; tommyrot.
   • 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch:

     Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me.

Translations

euphemism for "fuck!"

Catalan: fonoll (ca) French: tabarnouche (fr) (Canada) German: Mist! (de) Portuguese: fosca-se! Russian: блин! (ru) (blin!) - euphemism for "блядь! (bljadʹ!)" (bljadʹ!), песе́ц! (ru) (peséc!) - euphemism for "пиздец! (pizdec!)" (pizdéc!) Spanish: rayos (es)

Further reading

• fudge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

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Finnish

Etymology

From English fudge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfudɡe/, [ˈfudɡe̞]
• Rhymes: -udɡe
• Syllabification^(key): fud‧ge

Noun

fudge

1. fudge (type of confection)

Declension

Inflection of fudge (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		fudge	fudget
genitive		fudgen	fudgejen
partitive		fudgea	fudgeja
illative		fudgeen	fudgeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		fudge	fudget
accusative	nom.	fudge	fudget
	gen.	fudgen
genitive		fudgen	fudgejen fudgeinrare
partitive		fudgea	fudgeja
inessive		fudgessa	fudgeissa
elative		fudgesta	fudgeista
illative		fudgeen	fudgeihin
adessive		fudgella	fudgeilla
ablative		fudgelta	fudgeilta
allative		fudgelle	fudgeille
essive		fudgena	fudgeina
translative		fudgeksi	fudgeiksi
instructive		—	fudgein
abessive		fudgetta	fudgeitta
comitative		—	fudgeineen

Possessive forms of fudge (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	fudgeni	fudgemme
2nd person	fudgesi	fudgenne
3rd person	fudgensa

See also

• kinuski
• toffee