fudge
A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or…A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
» My favorite type of food is chocolate fudge.
Meaning
8 senses(uncountable)A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!
Fondant, Buttertoffee
ири́сirís, ири́скаiríska
A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
(US, countable, uncountable)Chocolate fudge.
(uncountable)Light or frothy nonsense.
Blödsinn
(countable)A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
Ausweichen, Herumreden, Schaumschlägerei
вздорvzdor, вы́думкаvýdumka, чушьčušʹ
(dated, uncountable)A made-up story.
Fälschung, frisierte Geschichte, Schwindel
(countable)A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
Pfusch, Pfuscherei
(countable, euphemistic, slang, uncountable)Fecal matter; feces.
Here comes the fudge!
(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)The stop press portion of a newspaper.
- soft creamy candy
Examples
15 sentencesMy favorite type of food is chocolate fudge.
This fudge is way too sweet for me.
I'm making fudge.
My grandmother made delicious homemade fudge.
deMeine Großmutter machte leckere, hausgemachte Karamellbonbons.
They accused him of fudging data.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 5
Origin
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meProbably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
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Forms
plural: fudgesSynonyms
182 synonymsWord family
15 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable