"fudge" Definition

Definitions for the word "fudge" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To foist; to interpolate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
1 soft toffee-like sweet made of milk, sugar, butter, etc. 2 piece of dishonesty or faking. v. (-ging) make or do clumsily or dishonestly; fake (fudge the results). [origin uncertain]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
5. slang
nonsense, stupidity. Todd and Richardson only trace the word to Goldsmith. Disraeli, however, gives the origin to a Captain Fudge, a great fibber, who told monstrous stories, which made his crew say in answer to any improbability, “You FUDGE it!”—_See Remarks on the Navy_, 1700. At page 87 of a collection of some papers of William Crouch (8vo, 1712), the Quaker, we find a mention of this Captain. Degory Marshall informed Crouch that— “In the year 1664 we were sentenced for banishment to Jamaica by Judges Hyde and Twisden, and our number was 55. We were put on board the ship Black Eagle; the master’s name was FUDGE, by some called LYING FUDGE.” Some persons believe that the word comes from the _Gaelic_, FFUG, deception.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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