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fudge

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: fudge

1
n
soft creamy candy
2
v
tamper, with the purpose of deception
3
v
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: fudge
1

n soft creamy candy

Types:
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
Type of:
candy, confect
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
2

v tamper, with the purpose of deception

Fudge the figures”
Synonyms:
cook, fake, falsify, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle
Types:
juggle
manipulate by or as if by moving around components
Type of:
cheat, chisel
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
3

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

Synonyms:
circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt
Types:
beg
dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
quibble
evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
Type of:
avoid
stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
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