fudge
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Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A soft sweet food made by boiling sugar, butter and milk together until the mixture gets thick and then letting it cool hard.
Fudge is much softer than toffee and crumbles in your mouth.
The little gift shop sells vanilla fudge in small paper boxes.
One square of fudge was enough after such a rich meal.
She sent us a box of chocolate fudge for the holidays.
Common collocations: a piece of fudge · a square of fudge · vanilla fudge · chocolate fudge · a box of fudge · fudge sauce
Part of: Sweets
Sense 2 · less common
- verb
- C1
To talk about something or give numbers in a way that is not clear or not quite true, so that nobody can see the real facts.
The manager fudged the figures to hide the missing money.
He fudged the question and started talking about something else.
They fudged the issue for months instead of deciding anything.
Common collocations: fudge the figures · fudge the issue · fudge the question · fudge the numbers
Part of: Speaking, Talking to people
Forms
- past
- fudged
- plural
- fudges (rare, only of kinds)
- third_person
- fudges