fudge

verbfake, misrepresent

Word Origin & History

"put together clumsily or dishonestly," 1610s, perhaps an alteration of fadge "make suit, fit" (1570s), of unknown origin. As an interjection meaning "lies, nonsense" from 1766; the noun meaning "nonsense" is 1791. It could be a natural extension from the verb. But Farmer suggests provincial French fuche, feuche, "an exclamation of contempt from Low German futsch = begone."

The traditional English story traces fudge in this sense to a sailor's retort to anything considered lies or nonsense, from Captain Fudge, "who always brought home his owners a good cargo of lies" [Isaac Disraeli, 1791, citing a pamphlet from 1700]. It seems there really was a late 17c. Captain Fudge, called "Lying Fudge," and perhaps his name reinforced this form of fadge in the sense of "contrive ...

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Example Sentences for fudge

Clayton knew it very well, and the trick of examining the books was all a fudge.

“Oh, fudge on the judges,” Langford exclaimed in affected disgust.

There was to be fudge, too, which Nancy had the knack of making.

I don't call this fudge; what I mean by fudge is, outside without inside.

So we stopped at the store, and she's loaded me down with stuff for fudge.

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