Fudge

Noun

 * 1)  Light or frothy nonsense.
 * 2)  A type of very sweet candy or confection. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge.
 * 3)  A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
 * 4)  A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.

Verb

 * 1)  To try to avoid giving a direct answer
 * 2) To waffle or equivocate.
 * 3) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty.  Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral.

Thesaurus
toffee, torrone, touch upon, touch upon lightly, trash, trick out, trump up, trumpery, tutti-frutti, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, twist, understate, vaporing, varnish, victimize, waffling, warp, wedge in, whitewash, work in, worm in, absurdity, amphigory, applesauce, babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, beat, beguile of, belie, bibble-babble, bilge, bilk, blabber, blather, blink, bombast, bonbon, bosh, brittle, bubble gum, bull, bunco, bunkum, burn, butterscotch, camouflage, candied apple, candy corn, caramel, carefully ignore, cheat, chewing gum, chisel, chocolate, chocolate bar, chocolate drop, chouse, chouse out of, claptrap, cog, cog the dice, cold-shoulder, color, con, concoct, cook up, cotton candy, cough drop, counterfeit, cozen, cream, crib, cut a corner, cut corners, defraud, diddle, disguise, distort, divinity, do in, do out of, dodge, double-talk, drag in, dress up, drivel, drool, edge in, embellish, embroider, euchre, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fantasize, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, flummery, fob, foist in, folderol, fondant, forge, fudge in, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garble, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gild, glace, gloss, gloss over, gobbledygook, gouge, gull, gum, gumdrop, gyp, hard candy, hatch, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke up, honey crisp, hooey, horehound, humbug, implant in, inject in, insert in, insinuate in, intercalate, interjaculate, interject, interpolate, interpose, intervene, introduce in, intrude, invent, jabber, jargon, jelly bean, jelly egg, jujube, kiss, lollipop, lozenge, lug in, magnify, make up, manufacture, marchpane, marshmallow, marzipan, mask, mint, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, mulct, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, nougat, overcharge, overdraw, overpaint, overstate, pack of nonsense, pack the deal, pad, palaver, pass over, pass over lightly, peanut bar, peanut brittle, peppermint, pervert, pigeon, popcorn balls, poppycock, practice fraud upon, praline, prate, prattle, put between, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rock candy, rodomontade, rook, rubbish, run in, saltwater taffy, sandwich, scam, scamp, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimble-skamble, skimp, skip over, slant, slight, slubber over, slur, slur over, smuggle in, squeeze in, stack the cards, stick, sting, strain, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, sugar candy, sugarplum, swindle, taffy, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, throw in, thrust in, titivate,

Derived terms

 * fudger

Derived terms

 * fudge factor
 * fudge packer

Noun

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 * Russian: ирис, ириска
 * Swedish: mjuk kola

Verb

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 * Russian: увиливать


 * Finnish: