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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fudge \Fudge\, n. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fudge \Fudge\, n. [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt.] A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fudge \Fudge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fudged}; p. pr & vb n. {Fudging}.] 1. To make up to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. --N. Fairfax. 2. To foist; to interpolate. That last ``suppose'' is fudged in --Foote. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fudge n : soft creamy candy v 1: fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: {manipulate}, {fake}, {falsify}, {cook}, {wangle}, {misrepresent}] 2: avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues; "He dodged the issue" [syn: {hedge}, {evade}, {put off}, {circumvent}, {parry}, {elude}, {skirt}, {dodge}, {duck}, {sidestep}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: fudge 1. vt To perform in an incomplete but marginally acceptable way particularly with respect to the writing of a program. "I didn't feel like going through that pain and suffering, so I fudged it -- I'll fix it later." 2. n. The resulting code. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: fudge 1. To perform in an incomplete but marginally acceptable way particularly with respect to the writing of a program. "I didn't feel like going through that pain and suffering, so I fudged it - I'll fix it later." 2. The resulting code. [{Jargon File}]
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