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fudge

1

[ fuhj ]

noun

  1. a soft candy made of sugar, butter, milk, chocolate, and sometimes nuts.


fudge

2

[ fuhj ]

verb (used without object)

fudged, fudging.
  1. to cheat (often followed by on ):

    How many of you have fudged on your taxes?

  2. to fail to fulfill an obligation:

    For a variety of reasons, they had fudged on their promise.

  3. to avoid coming to grips with a subject, issue, etc.:

    He fudged on the matter of whether he would retire at the end of his three-year term.

  4. to tamper with or misrepresent something, as to produce a desired result or allow leeway for error:

    Some of the men and women fudged on their ages.

verb (used with object)

fudged, fudging.
  1. to avoid coming to grips with (a subject, issue, etc.); evade; dodge:

    He fudged a few of the direct questions.

  2. to tamper with or misrepresent:

    The suggestion is that they simply fudged the figures to make sales look more impressive.

noun

Printing.
  1. a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
  2. the bulletin thus printed, often in color.
  3. a machine or attachment for printing such a bulletin.

fudge

3

[ fuhj ]

noun

  1. nonsense or foolishness (often used as an interjection).

verb (used without object)

fudged, fudging.
  1. to talk nonsense.

fudge

1

/ ´ÚÊŒ»åÏô /

noun

  1. a soft variously flavoured sweet made from sugar, butter, cream, etc
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fudge

2

/ ´ÚÊŒ»åÏô /

noun

  1. foolishness; nonsense
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interjection

  1. a mild exclamation of annoyance
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verb

  1. intr to talk foolishly or emptily
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

fudge

3

/ ´ÚÊŒ»åÏô /

noun

  1. a small section of type matter in a box in a newspaper allowing late news to be included without the whole page having to be remade
  2. the box in which such type matter is placed
  3. the late news so inserted
  4. a machine attached to a newspaper press for printing this
  5. an unsatisfactory compromise reached to evade a difficult problem or controversial issue
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to make or adjust in a false or clumsy way
  2. tr to misrepresent; falsify
  3. to evade (a problem, issue, etc); dodge; avoid
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of fudge1

An Americanism dating to 1895–1900; of uncertain origin; the word was early in its history associated with female college campuses, where fudge-making was popular; however, attempts to explain it as a derivative of fudge 2( def ) (preparing the candy supposedly being an excuse to “fudge†on dormitory rules) are dubious and probably after-the-fact speculation

Origin of fudge2

First recorded in 1665–75; origin uncertain; in earliest sense, “to contrive clumsily,†perhaps expressive variant of fadge “to fit, agree, do†(akin to Middle English feien, Old English ´Úŧ²µ²¹²Ô “to fit together, join, bindâ€); fudge 1 and fudge 3 are developments of this word or are independent coinages

Origin of fudge3

First recorded in 1690–1700; of uncertain origin; fudge 2
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of fudge1

C19: of unknown origin

Origin of fudge2

C18: of uncertain origin

Origin of fudge3

C19: see fadge
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They, of course, know this proposal that President Trump has branded “one big, beautiful bill†is unpopular for many reasons, so they’re trying to fudge the numbers.

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Gibson has been a guest on her show, revealing his love of haggis and fudge and how he has the latitude and longitude coordinates of his home town - Prestwick in Scotland - tattooed on his shoulder.

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"People got the sense that something was being withheld or fudged in some way, and that led the social media types who wanted to spread disinformation to spread disinformation," Jonathan Hall KC said.

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I had been so ambivalent about being from Malibu that I tended to fudge when asked where I grew up.

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From there, it was a matter of fudging size and distance with a life-size TV tower.

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