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fudge
1[ fuhj ]
noun
- a soft candy made of sugar, butter, milk, chocolate, and sometimes nuts.
fudge
2[ fuhj ]
verb (used without object)
- to cheat (often followed by on ):
How many of you have fudged on your taxes?
- to fail to fulfill an obligation:
For a variety of reasons, they had fudged on their promise.
- 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.
- 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)
- to avoid coming to grips with (a subject, issue, etc.); evade; dodge:
He fudged a few of the direct questions.
- to tamper with or misrepresent:
The suggestion is that they simply fudged the figures to make sales look more impressive.
noun
- 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.
- the bulletin thus printed, often in color.
- a machine or attachment for printing such a bulletin.
fudge
3[ fuhj ]
noun
- nonsense or foolishness (often used as an interjection).
verb (used without object)
- to talk nonsense.
fudge
1/ ´ÚÊŒ»åÏô /
noun
- a soft variously flavoured sweet made from sugar, butter, cream, etc
fudge
2/ ´ÚÊŒ»åÏô /
noun
- foolishness; nonsense
interjection
- a mild exclamation of annoyance
verb
- intr to talk foolishly or emptily
fudge
3/ ´ÚÊŒ»åÏô /
noun
- 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
- the box in which such type matter is placed
- the late news so inserted
- a machine attached to a newspaper press for printing this
- an unsatisfactory compromise reached to evade a difficult problem or controversial issue
verb
- tr to make or adjust in a false or clumsy way
- tr to misrepresent; falsify
- to evade (a problem, issue, etc); dodge; avoid
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of fudge1
Origin of fudge2
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of fudge1
Origin of fudge2
Origin of fudge3
Example Sentences
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.
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.
"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.
I had been so ambivalent about being from Malibu that I tended to fudge when asked where I grew up.
From there, it was a matter of fudging size and distance with a life-size TV tower.
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