fudgy

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/ˈfʌdʒi/

adjective

Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture.

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivefudgy (comparative fudgier, superlative fudgiest)

comparative fudgier · superlative fudgiest · alternative fudgey

  1. Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture.

    She twice let the Baby’s ears get fudgy with wax.

    1997, Lorrie Moore, People Like That Are the Only People Here
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    FOR cooks of a lemon-loving persuasion, a puckery citrus curd is the culinary analogue of a chocolate fanatic’s fudgy ganache.

    2007 April 18, Melissa Clark, “Silky, Sweet and Tart, a Triple Threat”, in New York Times
  2. figurativelyFuzzy, imprecise.

    The hundred years after Euler represented a period in which functions not satisfying his "official" constraints were frequently smuggled into mathematics through fudgy considerations involving infinite series expansions and the like.

    1993, Steven J. Wagner, Richard Wagner, Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, page 72
  3. archaicIrritable.
  4. archaicAwkward.

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APA

fudgy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fudgy

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Chicago

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