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# fudge

«fudge» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft, sweet candy made from sugar, butter and milk…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fudge, fudges); verb (fudge, fudges, fudged, fudging); exclamation (fudge — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fudge is a soft, sweet candy made from sugar, butter and milk, often with chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#m1)

2) (informal) To fudge something is to avoid giving a clear answer, or to change facts or numbers a little to make them look better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#m2)

3) (informal) A fudge is an unclear compromise that hides a problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#m3)

4) (informal, euphemism) "Oh fudge!" is a polite way of saying a swear word when something goes wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and cooking, fudge is a treat sold at fairs and seaside shops. In maths and science, "fudging the results" means cheating with numbers, which is wrong. In stories, a character says "Oh fudge!" instead of swearing. Phrases: fudge the numbers, fudge the issue, chocolate fudge.

### examples

- Gran makes chocolate fudge for the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#x1)
- We bought fudge at the seaside shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#x2)
- Don't fudge your results; write what really happened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#x3)
- He fudged the question and didn't really answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#x4)
- Oh fudge, I've dropped my ice cream! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#x5)
- The recipe needs 400 g of sugar for the fudge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#x6)
- Cut the fudge into 24 squares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#x7)
- The plan was a fudge that pleased nobody. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/#x8)

### note

Fudge (sweet) is uncountable: "some fudge", "a piece of fudge". Regular verb: fudged. "Oh fudge!" is a minced oath, a polite stand-in for a rude word. Fudging data is dishonest in science.

### In the corpora

- ["Fudge!" is a mild word used instead of the f-word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fudge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fudge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.