fudgyadj.
/ˈfʌdʒi/ 1. Fretful, irritable, uneasy.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [adjective]
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1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 677 [He] kept running to and fro like a wasp without a sting, very fierce and fudgy.
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words They young cows are apt to be fudgy in milking.
2. U.S. Botched, bungling, awkward.
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1872 C. D. Warner Saunterings (1883) 156 There is some fashion, in a fudgy quaint way, here in Munich.
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Of or resembling fudge; of the consistency, appearance, or taste of fudge.
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1913 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 12 Nov. It is the double boiling that gives the frosting the enviable fudgy, marshmallowy consistency.
1947 S. Blumenthal Food Products vi. 385 Add to above and mix on low speed until icing cools slightly and takes on a fudgy appearance.
1987 T. Janowitz Cannibal in Manhattan xviii. 125 A sleek chocolate cake, black as a seal and densely fudgy.
2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 2 Apr. 5 This is a proper teatime cake that is good and lemony with pockets of slightly fudgy curd.
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