单词 | fudge |
释义 | fudge (once / 4571 pages) 1n 2v 3v Fudge is a rich, chocolate candy made with plenty of sugar, cream, and butter. Fudge is usually cut into squares and eaten in small quantities. While fudge comes in many different flavors, it's usually chocolate. In the US, another kind of fudge is smooth, melted chocolate that can be poured over the top of ice cream. When fudge is a verb, it means to avoid straightforwardly answering a question or addressing a subject: "Just answer my question and don't fudge the issue!" Fudge is an American word from college slang meaning "a made-up story." WORD FAMILYfudge: fudged, fudges, fudging USAGE EXAMPLESOnce, in practice, Grimes caught himself on the verge of swearing, and said “fudge” instead. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Fudge says tickets are most often falsified with high-profile shows. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) The title is a fudge of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Six Napoleons, a short story that featured plaster busts of the famous emperor. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) 1 n soft creamy candy 2Hypo|Hyper chocolate fudge fudge made with chocolate or cocoa divinity, divinity fudgewhite creamy fudge made with egg whites panocha, panoche, penoche, penuchefudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts candy, confect a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts v tamper, with the purpose of deception 3Fudge the figures Syn|Hypo|Hyper cook, fake, falsify, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle juggle manipulate by or as if by moving around components cheat, chisel engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud v avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) Syn|Hypo|Hyper circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt beg dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted quibbleevade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections avoid stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something |
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