From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fudge \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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fudge \Fudge\, n. [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of
contempt.]
A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an
exclamation of contempt.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fudge \Fudge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fudged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fudging}.]
1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
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Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. --N.
Fairfax.
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2. To foist; to interpolate.
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That last "suppose" is fudged in. --Foote.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fudge
n 1: soft creamy candy
v 1: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures";
"cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: {fudge},
{manipulate}, {fake}, {falsify}, {cook}, {wangle},
{misrepresent}]
2: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
(duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she
skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their
responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn:
{hedge}, {fudge}, {evade}, {put off}, {circumvent}, {parry},
{elude}, {skirt}, {dodge}, {duck}, {sidestep}]
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
fudge
1. vt. To perform in an incomplete but marginally acceptable way,
particularly with respect to the writing of a program. ?I didn't feel like
going through that pain and suffering, so I fudged it ? I'll fix it later.?
2. n. The resulting code.
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