fudge

noun

1. (uncountable)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!”

2. (US, countable, uncountable)A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
3. (uncountable)Light or frothy nonsense.
4. (countable)A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
5. (dated, uncountable)A made-up story.
6. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)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.”

7. (countable)A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
8. (countable, euphemistic, slang, uncountable)Fecal matter; feces.

   “Here comes the fudge!”

verb

1. (intransitive)To try to avoid giving a direct answer.

   “When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.”

2. (transitive)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?”

   “Llama 4, which was released in April 2025, was a flop, and the company was accused of gaming benchmarks to make it look more impressive. [Yann] LeCun admits that the “results were fudged a little bit”, and the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results.”

3. (ambitransitive, dated)To botch or bungle something.
4. To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
5. (colloquial)Used in place of fuck.

   “Check yo' ass, or I'll fudge you up, mach schnell!”

   “I thought so. And they say I have a bad memory.... Fudge em.”

   “"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 hasn't used the "fudge" word in a sentence.)”

   “>>To what are you refering to exactly?. > >to how I fucked your mother I cut her into pieces....... THEN I fudged her.”

intj

1. (colloquial)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?”

   “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."”

   “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 […]”

2. (archaic, colloquial)Nonsense; tommyrot.

   “Oh, fudge! Don't lecture me.”

name

1. A surname.