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fudge

fəʤ
WordNet
Interesting fact
Cole Porter had nine pounds of fudge shipped to him each month from his hometown.
  1. (v) fudge
    avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) "He dodged the issue","she skirted the problem","They tend to evade their responsibilities","he evaded the questions skillfully"
  2. (v) fudge
    tamper, with the purpose of deception "Fudge the figures","cook the books","falsify the data"
  3. (n) fudge
    soft creamy candy
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Fudge
    A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.
  2. Fudge
    A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
  3. Fudge
    To foist; to interpolate. "That last “suppose” is fudged in."
  4. Fudge
    To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. "Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. fudge
    To poke with a stick.
  2. fudge
    To foist.
  3. fudge
    To make or fix awkwardly or clumsily; arrange confusedly; botch; bungle.
  4. fudge
    to compute a ship's change of position from one noon to the next by dead-reckoning, determining by means of tables the northing, southing, easting, and westing made by the different courses and distances sailed, and applying the result to the latitude and longitude of the previous noon.
  5. fudge
    To work clumsily; labor in a clumsy fashion.
  6. (n) fudge
    Nonsense; stuff; rubbish: most commonly used as a contemptuous interjection.
  7. fudge
    Fabulous.
  8. fudge
    In printing, to make use of improper materials or methods to produce a needed result with greater speed.
  9. (n) fudge
    In newspaper parlance, matter of supposed importance, as the latest sporting news or sensational stuff, which comes to hand too late to find a place in the plates before going to press, and is inserted in a special place by cutting the plates. See fudge-box.
  10. (n) fudge
    In printing, an unworkmanlike practice.
  11. (n) fudge
    A kind or home-made candy composed of milk, sugar, butter, and chocolate, boiled together, flavored with vanilla, and, when nearly cool, poured into a rectangular pan and cut into squares: more fully designated chocolate-fudge. When chopped walnuts form an ingredient it is known as nut-fudge. The name alludes to the hasty amateur manufacture.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Fudge
    fuj stuff: nonsense: an exclamation of contempt
  2. (v.i., v.t) Fudge
    to botch or bungle anything
Quotations
Robertson Davies
He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
Robertson Davies
Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.
Judith Olney
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt

Usage in the news

( Joe Fudge / March 29, 2012 ). dailyamerican.com

Marc Hauser, above, was found guilty of fudging numbers. yaledailynews.com

Marcia Fudge seeks chairmanship of the Congressional Black Caucus. cleveland.com

Marcia Fudge doesn't look a politician in a hurry. cleveland.com

WORKSHOP DR PETER ANDERSON ( Joe Fudge, Daily Press / December 6, 2012 ). ktuu.com

Terry Richard/The Oregonian Wendy Bush offers visitors a choice of fudge at the Brigittine monastery near Amity where she works. blog.oregonlive.com

Will it be fudge or fruitcake. blog.oregonlive.com

Photo by Tom Fudge / KPBS. kpbs.org

( Joe Fudge, Daily Press / August 21, 2012 ). sun-sentinel.com

( Joe Fudge, Daily Press / June 30, 2011 ). dailypress.com

Viewer Rose Richard shares her recipe for opera fudge as part of our America Cooks series. marthastewart.com

Viewer Rose Richard shares her recipe for opera fudge as part of our America. marthastewart.com

This method of keeping things from sticking to the pan is used most often for brownies, bar cookies, and fudge. bhg.com

Peanut Butter Meltaway Fudge (Second-place winner, March 2). dailyamerican.com

Peanut butter meltaway fudge. dailyamerican.com

Usage in scientific papers

The canonical PS n(Λ)curve is shown for comparison; the PS curve has not been multiplied by the fudge factor of two at this stage, in order to compare the results of the PS-like procedures in the different cases, with no guarantee of normalization (in Monaco 1995 all the curves were multiplied by two).
The Cosmological Mass Function

In both cases the SKS curve gives, at large masses, roughly a factor 2 more ob jects than the PS-like one, just like in the canonical PS case, even though the “fudge factor” in the present case is not more than 1.09.
The Cosmological Mass Function

Then, they multiplied their MF by a “fudge factor” 2.
On the cosmological mass function theory

Press and Schechter faced the problem by simply multiplying their result by a fudge factor of 2.
On the cosmological mass function theory

The original fudge factor of 2 of the PS approach is now naturally justified.
On the cosmological mass function theory

Usage in literature

After the business is over, we are going to have a fudge party. "The Torch Bearer" by I. T. Thurston

There had been plenty of secret "spreads" and "fudge orgies" in other rooms. "A Little Miss Nobody" by Amy Bell Marlowe

Vanilla or any other flavoring improves this fudge. "The Community Cook Book" by Anonymous

The thing to avoid is fudging. "Art in Needlework" by Lewis F. Day

You turn me loose in an experimental chamber so I can't fudge. "The Weakling" by Everett B. Cole

As to your not loving me, that is all fudge, you know. "Good Luck" by L. T. Meade

But you've got to fudge up some sort of a service to suit the gal. "A Man to His Mate" by J. Allan Dunn

By the by, are you keen on Fudge here? "The Leader of the Lower School" by Angela Brazil

Women are all fudge, sir. "The Tale of Timber Town" by Alfred Grace

One of the quartettes on their corridor had indulged in a fudge party after hours already, and Ruth had been invited to be present. "Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall" by Alice B. Emerson

Usage in poetry
In vain we call old notions fudge,
And bend our conscience to our dealing;
The Ten Commandments will not budge,
And stealing will continue stealing.
"You must know —-" said the Judge: but the Snark exclaimed "Fudge!"
That statute is obsolete quite!
Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends
On an ancient manorial right.
One should never strike a Sissy,
He is too lady-like and prissy.
You do not need to use your fist
But merely slap him on the wrist,
And if this will not make him budge,
Then glare at him and say "Oh Fudge!"
We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told,
Of talking (in public) as if we were old:—
That boy we call "Doctor," and this we call "Judge;"
It's a neat little fiction,— of course it's all fudge.
Waggoner.
No. There's a gossip
Amongst the women—but who would heed their talk!—
That love half-crazed, then drove him out of doors,
To wander here and there, like a bad ghost,
Because a silly wench refused him:—fudge!