Meaning

8 senses
  1. (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

  2. A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

    (US, countable, uncountable)Chocolate fudge.

  3. (uncountable)Light or frothy nonsense.

    Blödsinn

  4. (countable)A deliberately misleading or vague answer.

    Ausweichen, Herumreden, Schaumschlägerei

    вздорvzdor, вы́думкаvýdumka, чушьčušʹ

  5. (dated, uncountable)A made-up story.

    Fälschung, frisierte Geschichte, Schwindel

  6. (countable)A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.

    Pfusch, Pfuscherei

  7. (countable, euphemistic, slang, uncountable)Fecal matter; feces.

    Here comes the fudge!

  8. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)The stop press portion of a newspaper.

More definitions
  • soft creamy candy

Examples

15 sentences
  1. My favorite type of food is chocolate fudge.

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  2. This fudge is way too sweet for me.

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  3. I'm making fudge.

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  4. My grandmother made delicious homemade fudge.

    deMeine Großmutter machte leckere, hausgemachte Karamellbonbons.

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  5. They accused him of fudging data.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
a very sweet confection:
deliberately misleading or vague answer:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
a very sweet confection:
light or frothy nonsense:
deliberately misleading or vague answer:
a made-up story; nonsense; humbug:
a less than perfect decision or solution:

Origin

Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the me

Probably 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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