fudge

plural fudges

1. uncountableA 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!

   1. UScountableuncountableChocolate fudge.
2. uncountableLight or frothy nonsense.
3. countableA deliberately misleading or vague answer.
4. dateduncountableA made-up story.

   Synonyms: nonsense, humbug, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab

5. archaiccountableslanguncountablejournalismThe stop press portion of a newspaper.

   'That is all, sir—no, here is something more about it in the "fudge".' Greatorex rearranged the paper to display the 'Stop Press' space and read on.

   1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

6. countableA less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
7. countableeuphemisticslanguncountableFecal matter; feces.

   Here comes the fudge!

   Synonyms: boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog

present singular third person fudges · participle present fudging · participle past fudged · past fudged

1. intransitiveTo try to avoid giving a direct answer.

   When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.

   Synonyms: waffle, equivocate, hedge

2. transitiveTo alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.

   Do you fudge your age?

   3 more examples

   The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged.

   I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.

   Llama 4, which was released in April 2025, was a flop, and the company was accused of gaming benchmarks to make it look more impressive. [Yann] LeCun admits that the “results were fudged a little bit”, and the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results.

   2026 January 3, Melissa Heikkilä, “Lunch with the FT: Yann LeCun”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

   Synonyms: juggle, massage

3. ambitransitivedatedTo botch or bungle something.
4. To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.

   Synonyms: cheat, abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, catch, trap into, dissemble

5. colloquialminced oathUsed in place of fuck.

   Check yo' ass, or I'll fudge you up, mach schnell!

   2000 January 21, Jesse Friedman, “get your wu-name now...”, in alt.music.ween (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025

   3 more examples

   I thought so. And they say I have a bad memory.... Fudge em.

   2001 September 20, Aerogram, “Things That Irritate A Sane Person”, in alt.worst.of.usenet (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025

   "Who the fudge are you?" ("Fudge" is not the word he uses but you get the idea.) / We say, "We're with CNN." / "I don't like the fudging media," is his reply. "Who are you supposed to be with?" (It's the first time he hasn't used the "fudge" word in a sentence.)

   2002 March 15, Martin Savidge, “An uphill battle”, in CNN.com, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2002

   >>To what are you refering to exactly?. > >to how I fucked your mother I cut her into pieces....... THEN I fudged her.

   2002 September 13, T, “boy, i've never heard so many retards in my life!”, in alt.music.prince (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025

1. colloquialminced oathUsed in place of fuck.

   Fudge! if you had such a fine instinct, why did you let us go to Transome Court and make fools of ourselves?

   1866, George Eliot, Felix Holt

   2 more examples

   Pearl had to go home. Mike was one of the last of the good guys, so he said he'd run her on home. All Robert could say was, "Ah, fudge."

   1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer

   Sabrina was no longer in the witch’s grasp; in fact, she was staring directly at the woman’s crusty, corny feet. Fudge, I made her a giant, Sabrina thought to herself […]

   2006, Michael Buckley, chapter 9, in The Problem Child (The Sisters Grimm; 3), New York, N.Y.: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 235

2. archaiccolloquialNonsense; tommyrot.

   Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me.

   1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch

plural Fudges

1. A surname.