Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Fudge \Fudge\, n. [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of
contempt.]
A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an
exclamation of contempt.
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.
Source : WordNet®
fudge
n : soft creamy candy
fudge
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 fulfilling, answering, or performing
(duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue";
"she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their
responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
[syn: {hedge}, {evade}, {put off}, {circumvent}, {parry},
{elude}, {skirt}, {dodge}, {duck}, {sidestep}]
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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.
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