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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/ fʌdʒ /
noun
- a soft variously flavoured sweet made from sugar, butter, cream, etc
fudge
2/ fʌdʒ /
noun
- foolishness; nonsense
interjection
- a mild exclamation of annoyance
verb
- intr to talk foolishly or emptily
fudge
3/ fʌdʒ /
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
Word History and Origins
Origin of fudge1
Origin of fudge2
Word History and Origins
Origin of fudge1
Origin of fudge2
Origin of fudge3
Example Sentences
But observers saw it as a bit of a fudge by the Church and by Mr Welby.
Smoke and mirrors, a fiscal fudge and a masterclass in creative public accounting?
The employers also stand accused of “fudging” the production’s labor costs in documents submitted to the Nevada Film Commission to qualify for the state’s tax credit program.
A fudge maker said her business had been "devastated" after its Instagram account, used to promote its products, was suspended without notice.
Lessig said that “fudging” made sense – but he said he’s concerned the Supreme Court could have taken up Trump’s case and said “All of these absentee ballots that you counted need to be thrown out.”
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