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English

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):(file)
  • 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.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:feces
    Here comes the fudge!

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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, ambitransitive) To botch or bungle something.
  4. To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
    Synonyms: cheat; see also Thesaurus:deceive
  5. (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
    • 2000 January 21, Jesse Friedman, “get your wu-name now...”, in alt.music.ween‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
      Check yo' ass, or I'll fudge you up, mach schnell!
    • 2001 September 20, Aerogram, “Things That Irritate A Sane Person”, in alt.worst.of.usenet‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
      I thought so. And they say I have a bad memory.... Fudge em.
    • 2002 March 15, Martin Savidge, “An uphill battle”, in CNN.com‎, archived from the original on 2 June 2002:
      "Who the fudge are you?" ("Fudge" is not the word he uses but you get the idea.) / We say, "We're with CNN." / "I don't like the fudging media," is his reply. "Who are you supposed to be with?" (It's the first time he hasn't used the "fudge" word in a sentence.)
    • 2002 September 13, T, “boy, i've never heard so many retards in my life!”, in alt.music.prince‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
      >>To what are you refering to exactly?.
      >
      >to how I fucked your mother
      I cut her into pieces....... THEN I fudged her.

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Interjection

fudge

  1. (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
    • 1866, George Eliot, Felix Holt:
      Fudge! if you had such a fine instinct, why did you let us go to Transome Court and make fools of ourselves?
    • 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
      Pearl had to go home. Mike was one of the last of the good guys, so he said he'd run her on home. All Robert could say was, "Ah, fudge."
    • 2006, Michael Buckley, chapter 9, in The Problem Child (The Sisters Grimm; 3), New York, N.Y.: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 235:
      Sabrina was no longer in the witch’s grasp; in fact, she was staring directly at the woman’s crusty, corny feet. Fudge, I made her a giant, Sabrina thought to herself […]
  2. (colloquial, archaic) Nonsense; tommyrot.
    • 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch:
      Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me.

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Finnish

Etymology

From English fudge.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fudge

  1. fudge (type of confection)

Declension

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