| chocolate fudge | (n) fudge made with chocolate or cocoa |
| fudge | (n) soft creamy candy |
| fudge | (v) tamper, with the purpose of deception, See also: cook up, Syn. misrepresent, manipulate, falsify, fake, wangle, cook, Example: Fudge the figures; cook the books; falsify the data |
| fudge together | (v) produce shoddily, without much attention to detail, Syn. throw together |
| hot-fudge sauce | (n) thick chocolate sauce served hot, Syn. fudge sauce |
| correction | (n) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure, Syn. fudge factor |
| divinity | (n) white creamy fudge made with egg whites, Syn. divinity fudge |
| hedge | (v) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues), Syn. duck, fudge, circumvent, skirt, dodge, parry, sidestep, evade, put off, elude, Example: He dodged the issue; she skirted the problem; They tend to evade their responsibilities; he evaded the questions skillfully |
| Fudge | n. [ Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt. ] A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Fudge | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fudged p. pr. & vb. n. Fudging. ] 1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. [ 1913 Webster ] Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To foist; to interpolate. [ 1913 Webster ] That last “suppose” is fudged in. Foote. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Fudge | n. A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| fudge factor | n. a term or factor inserted into a calculation to compensate for anticipated errors, or to arbitrarily make the result conform to some desired conclusion. [ PJC ] |
| Fudge wheel | (Shoemaking) A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole. [ 1913 Webster ] |
