fudge
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: journalism
media
Etymology: Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
Inflected forms:
form: fudges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fudges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fudging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fudged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fudged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!
gloss: A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Light or frothy nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A made-up story.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
gloss: The stop press portion of a newspaper.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 'That is all, sir—no, here is something more about it in the "fudge".'
Greatorex rearranged the paper to display the 'Stop Press' space and read on.
gloss: A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Fecal matter; feces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
slang
uncountable
examples: Here comes the fudge!
gloss: To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
gloss: To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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?
Llama 4, which was released in April 2025, was a flop, and the company was accused of gaming benchmarks to make it look more impressive. [Yann] LeCun admits that the “results were fudged a little bit”, and the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results.
gloss: To botch or bungle something.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
dated
gloss: To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
pos: verb
gloss: Used in place of fuck.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: Check yo' ass, or I'll fudge you up, mach schnell!
I thought so. And they say I have a bad memory.... Fudge em.
"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.)
>>To what are you refering to exactly?.
>
>to how I fucked your mother
I cut her into pieces....... THEN I fudged her.
gloss: Used in place of fuck.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Fudge! if you had such a fine instinct, why did you let us go to Transome Court and make fools of ourselves?
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."
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 […]
gloss: Nonsense; tommyrot.
pos: intj
tags: archaic
colloquial
examples: Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me.
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:
lang: Bulgarian
word: мек бонбон
roman: mek bonbon
lang: Catalan
word: caramel
lang: Dutch
word: karamel
lang: Finnish
word: fudge
lang: French
word: fondant
lang: French
word: caramel
lang: French
word: fudge
lang: German
word: Fondant
lang: German
word: Buttertoffee
lang: Japanese
word: ファッジ
roman: fajji
lang: Korean
word: 퍼지
roman: peoji
lang: Māori
word: whāti
lang: Marathi
word: फज
roman: phaj
lang: Persian
word: اریس
roman: eris
lang: Polish
word: krówka
lang: Russian
word: ири́с
roman: irís
lang: Russian
word: ири́ска
roman: iríska
lang: Spanish
word: manjar
lang: Spanish
word: dulce
lang: Spanish
word: ate
lang: Spanish
word: ganache
lang: Spanish
word: fudge
lang: Spanish
word: foch
lang: Swedish
word: mjuk kola
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאָדזש
roman: fodzh