fudge
noun/fʌdʒ/
/fʌdʒ/
- [uncountable] a type of soft brown sweet made from sugar, butter and milkTopics Foodc2
- [countable, usually singular] (especially British English, rather informal) a way of dealing with a situation that does not really solve the problems but is intended to appear to do so
- This solution is a fudge rushed in to win cheers at the party conference.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: probably an alteration of obsolete fadge ‘to fit’. Early usage was as a verb in the sense ‘turn out as expected’, also ‘merge together’: this probably gave rise to its use in confectionery. In the late 17th cent. the verb came to mean ‘fit together in a clumsy or underhand manner’, which included facts or figures being cobbled together in a superficially convincing way: this led to the exclamation ‘fudge!’
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