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Fudge   /fədʒ/   Listen
Fudge

noun
1.
Soft creamy candy.
verb
(past & past part. fudged; pres. part. fudging)
1.
Tamper, with the purpose of deception.  Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle.  "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"
2.
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues).  Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt.  "She skirted the problem" , "They tend to evade their responsibilities" , "He evaded the questions skillfully"



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"Fudge" Quotes from Famous Books



... questions, and telling a bunch of hard-worked slaves to be virtuous and wash behind their ears—the soft, ignorant, conceited, impractical parasites! But still, it's all sort of like a cranky boarding-school for girls—and you know what fun the girls have there, with midnight fudge parties and a teacher pussy-footing down the hall trying to ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis

... "Oh, fudge!" groaned the stranger. "And to think I've been to all this trouble to round up a bunch of tenderfeet." The man thrust his revolver into its holster ...
— The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers • Frank Gee Patchin

... a record of all that everybody says for the Inspector of Personal Communications," explained the Hatter. "Every word you and Mrs. Smythe spoke was recorded at the Central Office, and if either of you had used any expression stronger than Fudge, or O Tutt you would have been fined five dollars for each expression and repetition thereof. We expect to establish Civic Control of Public and Private Speech within the next year, and we have begun it with supervision of ...
— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs

... "Fudge! I cannot stay and listen to such talk. If you must go, wait a few minutes until I get back. I—I want to make a short call. Then I'll ...
— The Deserter • Charles King

... responsible a character as that which I have in my mind; although I don't hesitate to tell you, youngster, that Captain Vavassour gave you a most excellent character in every respect. What sort of a navigator are you? I suppose, like most other young gentlemen, you can fudge a day's work well enough to ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood


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