FUDGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does fudge mean?
• FUDGE (noun)
The noun FUDGE has 1 sense:
1. soft creamy candy
Familiarity information: FUDGE used as a noun is very rare.
• FUDGE (verb)
The verb FUDGE has 2 senses:
1. fake or falsify
2. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
Familiarity information: FUDGE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FUDGE (noun)
Meaning:
Soft creamy candy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("fudge" is a kind of...):
candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fudge"):
chocolate fudge (fudge made with chocolate or cocoa)
divinity; divinity fudge (white creamy fudge made with egg whites)
panocha; panoche; penoche; penuche (fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts)
• FUDGE (verb)
Meaning:
Fake or falsify
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
fudge; fake; falsify; misrepresent; wangle; manipulate; cook
Context examples:
Fudge the figures / cook the books / falsify the data
Hypernyms (to "fudge" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fudge"):
juggle (manipulate by or as if by moving around components)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
skirt; hedge; evade; sidestep; fudge; parry; elude; dodge; circumvent; duck; put off
Context examples:
He dodged the issue / she skirted the problem / They tend to evade their responsibilities / he evaded the questions skillfully
Hypernyms (to "fudge" is one way to...):
avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fudge"):
quibble (evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
