FUDGE

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 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. tamper, with the purpose of deception

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)

Sense 1

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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fudge    ... he / she / it fudges   
Past simple: fudged   
Past participle: fudged   
-ing form: fudging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tamper, with the purpose of deception

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

cook; fake; falsify; fudge; manipulate; misrepresent; wangle

Context example:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

circumvent; dodge; duck; elude; evade; fudge; hedge; parry; put off; sidestep; skirt

Context example:

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"):

beg (dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted)

quibble (evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something