fudge : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fudge	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for fudge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fudge n soft creamy candy v tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" Synonym(s): fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent 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" Synonym(s): hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
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 [bd]suppose[b8] is fudged in. --Foote.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [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}]