fudge
A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
Interjection
- Used 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:
- 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...
- Nonsense; tommyrot.
- Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me. - 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch:
Origin
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
Noun
- A 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!
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(US) Chocolate fudge.
- Light or frothy nonsense.
- A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- A made-up story.
Synonyms: nonsense humbug absurdity all my eye all my eye and Betty Martin applesauce bafflegab balderdash balls baloney banana oil Bandini baragouin batcrap batshit bilgewater blah blather blatherskite bobbins bollocks bosh BS bull
- The 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, Max Carrados Mysteries:
- A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
- Fecal matter; feces.
- Here comes the fudge!
Synonyms: boo-boo boom-boom BM bowel movement caca cack chocolate chocolate hot dog crap crud danna dejection dirt do do doo-doo doody dook dookie dooky droppings dump dumplings dung Eartha
Forms
Derived
every good boy deserves fudge fudgebag fudge box fudge cake fudge dragon fudge factor fudge it fudgelike fudge-nudger fudge packer fudge packing fudge the issue fudge tunnel fudgsicle fudgy good boys deserve fudge always holy fudge hot fudge like fudge pack fudge what the fudge
Verb
- To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
- When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
Synonyms: waffle equivocate hedge
- To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
- 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.
- Do you fudge your age?
- To botch or bungle something.
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
Synonyms: cheat abuse beglammer counterfeit deceive dissemble dissimulate feign jiff lead astray overreach put on spoof sham trick
- Used 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:
- 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...