fudge
31fudge — I. /fʌdʒ / (say fuj) noun a kind of soft sweet composed of sugar, butter, cream, chocolate, or the like. {origin uncertain} II. /fʌdʒ / (say fuj) noun 1. nonsense or bosh (sometimes used as a contemptuous interjection): *Fudge and fiddlesticks!… …
32fudge — [fad3] 1. in. to cheat; to deceive (someone). □ Bill, you’re fudging. Wait till the starting gun fires. □ No fair fudging! 2. n. nonsense; deception. □ Cut out the fudge and talk straight. □ …
33fudge — [17] Fudge the verb, ‘evade’, probably comes from an earlier fadge, which meant ‘fake, deceive’, and hence ‘adjust, fit’, and this in turn probably goes back to a Middle English noun fage ‘deceit’ – but where fage came from is not clear. Fudge as …
34fudge — I. verb (fudged; fudging) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1674 transitive verb 1. a. to devise as a substitute ; fake b. falsify < fudged the figures > …
35fudge — noun Fudge is used after these nouns: ↑chocolate …
36fudge — Synonyms and related words: Life Saver, Scotch kisses, absurdity, amphigory, applesauce, babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, beat, beguile of, belie, bibble babble, bilge, bilk, blabber, blather, blink, bombast, bonbon, bosh, brittle, bubble …
37fudge it — create, fake it, make up If you can t remember a name, fudge it. Answer every question …
38fudge — noun 1》 a soft crumbly or chewy sweet made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. 2》 [as modifier] chiefly N. Amer. denoting rich chocolate cakes, biscuits, etc. 3》 an attempt to fudge an issue. ↘archaic nonsense. 4》 a piece of late news… …
39fudge — verb 1) the mayor tried to fudge the issue Syn: evade, avoid, dodge, skirt, duck, gloss over; hedge on, prevaricate about, vacillate on, be noncommittal on, stall on, beat around the bush about, equivocate on, hem and haw on; informal cop out on …
40fudge — 1. Make a mistake. 2. Attempt to cover a mistake, or mitigate its effects. Often fudge up Invent a rather makeshift, unsatisfactory solution …
